linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 06/12] perf util: introduce Zstd based streaming compression API

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Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:06:23 +0300
From:   Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 06/12] perf util: introduce Zstd based streaming
 compression API


On 13.03.2019 17:37, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:23:42AM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>>
>> Implemented functions are based on Zstd streaming compression API.
>> The functions are used in runtime to compress data that come from
>> mmaped kernel buffer. zstd_init(), zstd_fini() are used for 
>> initialization and finalization to allocate and deallocate internal
>> zstd objects. zstd_compress_stream_to_records() is used to convert 
>> parts of mmaped kernel buffer into an array of PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED 
>> records.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/perf/util/Build      |  2 +
>>  tools/perf/util/compress.h | 18 ++++++++
>>  tools/perf/util/zstd.c     | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 115 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/zstd.c
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/Build b/tools/perf/util/Build
>> index 8dd3102301ea..920ee8bebd83 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/Build
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/Build
>> @@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ perf-y += scripting-engines/
>>  
>>  perf-$(CONFIG_ZLIB) += zlib.o
>>  perf-$(CONFIG_LZMA) += lzma.o
>> +perf-y += zstd.o
> 
> we have CONFIG_ZSTD, so we can do:
> 
> perf-$(CONFIG_ZSTD) += zstd.o
> 
> and skip that #ifdef HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT in zstd.c
> and put stub inlines into compress.h

in v8.

~Alexey

> 
> thanks,
> jirka
>