Re: [PATCH] perf inject: Flush ordered events on FINISHED_ROUND

[namhyung]

> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:03:17PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > > Below measures time and memory usage during the perf inject and
> > > report using ~190MB data file.
> > >
> > > Before:
> > >   perf inject:  11.09 s,  382148 KB
> > >   perf report:   8.05 s,  397440 KB
> > >
> > > After:
> > >   perf inject:  16.24 s,   83376 KB
> > >   perf report:   7.96 s,  216184 KB
> > >
> > > As you can see, it used 2x memory of the input size.  I guess it's
> > > because it needs to keep the copy for the whole input.  But I don't
> > > understand why processing time of perf inject increased..

Measuring it with time shows:

           before       after
  real    11.309s     17.040s
  user     8.084s     13.940s
  sys      6.535s      6.732s

So it's user space to make the difference.  I've run perf record on
both (with cycles:U) and the dominant function is same: queue_event.
(46.98% vs 65.87%)

It seems the flushing the queue makes more overhead on sorting.

Thanks
Namhyung