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Date:	Fri, 18 May 2012 14:19:12 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] perf record: add meta-data support for pipe-mode

Em Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:50:45AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> On 5/16/12 1:41 AM, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:34 AM, David Ahern<dsahern@...il.com>  wrote:
> >>I love the feature and it works nicely, but there has been push back on
> >>adding more synthesized events.  Also the size of the patch is a bit much to
> >>take in. If there is no objection to the synthesized can you break the patch
> >>up -- e.g., introduce the events in one, synthesis and processing functions
> >>in another, plug into the commands, ...
> >>
> >Without new synthesized events, you cannot make this work. This is by
> >construction
> >of the pipe mode. Meta-data has be be injected in the stream and
> >therefore it needs
> >PERF_RECORD_* types.
> 
> Understood. I don't object to synthesized events.
> 
> Arnaldo: preferences?

PeterZ was the one objecting to adding more userspace only events,
Peter?

- Arnaldo
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