Re: [PATCH 4/5] perf record: mmap output file - v5

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is mmap'ed output, not the ring buffers or its stack. As the 
> output file grows, new pages are needed and those are allocated on 
> access via page faults. The ftruncate only extends the file size, it 
> does not allocate pages at that time.

Hm, doesn't MAP_POPULATE prefault pages in this case as well? 
Prefaulting would avoid the most obvious page fault driven feedback 
loops and it would probably be faster as well, because it avoids all 
the pagefaults ...

Thanks,

	Ingo
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