Re: [PATCH v13 03/16] perf record: Introduce thread specific data array

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Feb 11 2022 - 11:52:49 EST


Em Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 01:51:16PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 07:21:11PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 06:39:39PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > > Some changes to reduce patch size, I have them in my local tree, will
> > > publish later.
> >
> > Its in perf/threaded at:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git
> >
> > Will continue tomorrow, testing it and checking the speedups on my
> > 5950x, I think the things I found so far can be fixed in follow up
> > patches, to make progress and have this merged sooner.
> >
> > I'll try and add committer notes with the test for some 'perf bench'
> > workload without/with parallel recording, something I missed in your
> > patch descriptions.
>
> Didn't manage to do that, but my considerations are minor at this point
> and plenty of informed people acked, reviewed, tested, so I'm not going
> to be the one to prevent this from going upstream.
>
> If we find problems (oh well), we'll fix it and progress.
>
> Thank you, Alexei Budankov, Jiri, Namhyung and Riccardo for working on
> making perf scale at the record phase for so long,
>
> I'm pushing this to perf/core, that should get into 5.18.
>
> Also, as a heads up, I'll change 'perf/core' to 'perf/next', to align
> with the kool kids out there,

Something I forgot to add: the current codebase, with this patchset,
passes 'perf test' and 'make -C tools/perf build-test' and also all the
container build tests on a myriad of distros.

- Arnaldo