Re: heads up/RFC: 'perf trace' using ordered_events

[Namhyung Kim]

Hi Arnaldo,

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:21:35AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> For trace I need to take advantage of the fact that each mmap is ordered
> already and then just sort by the timestamp in the mmap head, etc.
> 
> In retrospect, the perf.data file should have kept that ordering, i.e.
> have one file per mmap, that would be saved in parallel, without any of
> those PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND records.
> 
> But I have to experiment with that, leaving the existing code around to
> deal with older files.

It seems like what you said is almost same as my multi-thread work.
It saves data files per mmap and then merges them with an index
table so that they can be processed in parallel.

Thanks,
Namhyung
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