Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] perf trace: support for general-purposescripting

[Ingo Molnar]

* Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Known problems/shortcomings:
> 
> Probably the biggest problem right now is the sorting hack I added as 
> the last patch.  It's just meant as a temporary thing, but is there 
> because tracing scripts in general want to see events in the order 
> they happened i.e. timestamp order. [...]

Btw., have you seen the -M/--multiplex option to perf record? It 
multiplexes all events into a single buffer - making them all ordered. 
(The events are in causal ordering in this case even if there's some TSC 
asynchronity)

	Ingo
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