Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] perf report: support record trace file decompression

From: Alexey Budankov
Date: Wed Feb 27 2019 - 05:56:16 EST


Hi,

On 25.02.2019 19:04, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>
> On 20.02.2019 17:48, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>>
>> On 12.02.2019 16:09, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:25:00PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED records are decompressed from trace file into
>>>> a linked list of mmaped memory regions using streaming Zstandard API.
>>>> After that the regions are loaded fetching uncompressed events. When
>>>> dumping raw trace (e.g., perf report -D --header) file offsets of
>>>> events from compressed records are set to zero.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>> - moved compression/decompression code to session layer
>>>
>>> could you please add some automated test for this?
>>>
>>> I think it could be part of the sample synthesize test

Do you mean this one?

tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c

Thanks,
Alexey

>>> or even new script test under tests/shell.. or anything
>>> else really.. just to see that we have some clean
>>> interface for this that we can test
>>
>> This is possible. Let's complete the code review first.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alexey
>>
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> jirka
>>>
>>