linux-kernel - Re: Support for Perf CTF traces now in master (was Re: FW: [RFC 0/5] perf tools: Add perf data CTF conversion)

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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2014 21:44:28 +0100
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	Jérémie Galarneau 
	<jeremie.galarneau@...icios.com>
Cc:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Alexandre Montplaisir <alexmonthy@...populi.im>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dominique Toupin <dominique.toupin@...csson.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@...icios.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Trace Compass Developer Discussions 
	<tracecompass-dev@...ipse.org>,
	Matthew Khouzam <matthew.khouzam@...csson.com>,
	andreas@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: Support for Perf CTF traces now in master (was Re: FW: [RFC 0/5]
 perf tools: Add perf data CTF conversion)

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 12:28:08PM -0500, Jérémie Galarneau wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 06:37:21PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> >> * Alexandre Montplaisir | 2014-11-12 17:14:45 [-0500]:
> >
> > SNIP
> >
> >>
> >> >This was based on the most recent file format I was aware of, we will
> >> >update it accordingly if required.
> >> >
> >> >Testing welcome!
> >>
> >> I pushed the perf changes I mentioned to
> >>
> >>   git://git.breakpoint.cc/bigeasy/linux.git ctf_convert_7
> >>
> >
> > from perf data convert point of view (and libbabeltrace).. ;-)
> >
> > I tried to convert big perf.data (2GB) and my laptop got stuck
> > for few minutes.. the reason is that perf allocated too much memory
> >
> > I needed to add occasional bt_ctf_stream_flush into the
> > processing (patch attached)
> >
> > What I do now is checking if we processed given amount of events
> > for the stream and once the value is crossed I flush it.
> >
> > My question is if there's a way to find out the allocated memory
> > for the stream?  It'd be nicer to setup maximum allocation size
> > rather than the number of events.
> >
> 
> Not currently, although I agree that this would be a nice feature.
> Perhaps by setting a maximal packet size, CTF Writer could handle the
> automatic flushing.
> 
> Thoughts?

hum, it looks like 2 separated things to me.. the packet size is
result format related size.. I'm more interested in the size of
the 'struct ctf_stream' within the writer during the processing

it seems it wont be trivial to track this AFAICS from sources, but
I guess I can live so far with tracking the the number of events,
until we find something else

thanks,
jirka
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