Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf record: mmap output file

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 15 2013 - 11:27:55 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:32:45AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>
> > Jiri and PeterZ probaby will have comments here... ;-) :-)
>
> The only complication with splice is the vmalloc support; other than
> that it should be fairly straight fwd.

In the initial version we could skip splice support for vmalloc
ring-buffer, to keep things simple.

Wanna send a patch for people to try? Looks like there's real interest in
speeding up perf record as much as possible!

Thanks,

Ingo
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