Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] perf record: add meta-data support for pipe-mode

[David Ahern]

On 5/16/12 1:41 AM, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:34 AM, David Ahern<dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > I love the feature and it works nicely, but there has been push back on
> > adding more synthesized events.  Also the size of the patch is a bit much to
> > take in. If there is no objection to the synthesized can you break the patch
> > up -- e.g., introduce the events in one, synthesis and processing functions
> > in another, plug into the commands, ...
> Without new synthesized events, you cannot make this work. This is by
> construction
> of the pipe mode. Meta-data has be be injected in the stream and
> therefore it needs
> PERF_RECORD_* types.

Understood. I don't object to synthesized events.

Arnaldo: preferences?

David
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