Re: [PATCH 08/19] perf c2c: Shared data analyser

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Mar 03 2014 - 14:49:07 EST


On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 07:58:19PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Haswell is best however because it can report addresses on far more
> events.

Sure; however I think the code to data structure mapping might be more
useful still. Its very hard to map a random address into a heap and find
a fitting data structure. You'd need some allocator with a reverse map,
which to me seems like too much overhead for normal runtime use.
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