linux-kernel - Re: Q: perf log mode?

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Message-ID: <1294841288.19601.49.camel@laptop>
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:08:08 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Kirill Smelkov <kirr@....spb.ru>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Q: perf log mode?

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 17:06 +0300, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
> I'm trying to use perf together with e.g. kprobes as a tool to show what
> is happening with my system in "live-log" mode. The problem is, for
> seldom events, actual info output is largely delayed because perf reads
> sample data in whole pages. Could something be done with it or am I'm
> missing something? Here is detailed description: 

perf_event_attr = {
	.watermark = 0,
	.wakeup_events = 1,
};


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