Re: [PATCH v4 02/10] perf record: implement -f,--mmap-flush=<threshold> option

[Alexey Budankov]

On 28.02.2019 21:44, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:00:41PM +0300, Alexey Budankov escreveu:
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>> Implemented -f,--mmap-flush option that specifies threshold to postpone
>> and/or trigger the move of data from mmaped kernel buffers to a storage.
>> The option can be used to avoid capturing every single byte of data into
>> the stored trace. The default option value is 1.
> 
> Can you add something here explain more clearly what this means, and
> also on the tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt file? Something
> like a paragraph explaining when is that there is a mmap flush normally,
> or rephrase what you wrote if you think you said that.

Will try to rephrase and may be provide some description of 
cases that this option can specifically address.

Thanks,
Alexey

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