Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf record: mmap output file - v3

[David Ahern]

On 11/7/13, 1:03 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +--out-pages=::
> > +	Number of pages to mmap while writing data to file (must be a power of two).
> > +	Specification can be appended with unit character - B/K/M/G. The
> > +	size is rounded up to have nearest pages power of two value.
>
> So why doesn't the code automatically round down (or up) to the next power
> of 2 limit? We use computers to solve problems, not to introduce
> additional ones! ;-)

sure. It reuses perf_evlist__parse_mmap_pages which rounds so I will 
update the description.



> > +static int do_mmap_output(struct perf_record *rec, void *buf, size_t size)
> > +{
> > +	struct perf_data_file *file = &rec->file;
> > +	u64 remaining;
> > +	off_t offset;
> > +
> > +	if (rec->mmap_addr == NULL) {
> > +do_mmap:
> > +		offset = rec->session->header.data_offset + rec->bytes_written;
> > +		if (offset < (ssize_t) rec->mmap_out_size) {
> > +			rec->mmap_offset = offset;
> > +			offset = 0;
> > +		} else
> > +			rec->mmap_offset = 0;
>
> (Nit: unbalanced curly braces.)

I believe checkpatch.pl complains, but will add.


> > +	OPT_CALLBACK(0, "out-pages", &record.mmap_out_pages, "pages",
> > +		     "number of pages to use for output chunks.",
> > +		     perf_evlist__parse_mmap_pages),
>
> Nit: the short explanation here doesn't mention it at all to the user that
> these 'out pages' are used in mmap.
>
> Shouldn't it say:
>
> 		     "number of pages mmap()ed for output chunks."
>
> ?
>
> Also, what happens if a user sets it to zero?

I was intending to use that as a way of disabling the mmap output - go 
back to write(). I'll update the documentation.

Ack on all of the other comments.

David

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