Re: [PATCH v9 00/12] perf: enable compression of record mode trace to save storage space

[Jiri Olsa]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 11:58:30AM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:

SNIP

> ---
> Alexey Budankov (12):
>   feature: implement libzstd check, LIBZSTD_DIR and NO_LIBZSTD defines
>   perf record: implement --mmap-flush=<number> option
>   perf session: define bytes_transferred and bytes_compressed metrics
>   perf record: implement COMPRESSED event record and its attributes
>   perf mmap: implement dedicated memory buffer for data compression
>   perf util: introduce Zstd streaming based compression API
>   perf record: implement compression for serial trace streaming
>   perf record: implement compression for AIO trace streaming
>   perf record: implement -z,--compression_level[=<n>] option
>   perf report: implement record trace decompression
>   perf inject: enable COMPRESSED records decompression
>   perf tests: implement Zstd comp/decomp integration test
> 
>  tools/build/Makefile.feature                  |   6 +-
>  tools/build/feature/Makefile                  |   6 +-
>  tools/build/feature/test-all.c                |   5 +
>  tools/build/feature/test-libzstd.c            |  12 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt      |  17 ++
>  .../Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt   |  24 ++
>  tools/perf/Makefile.config                    |  20 ++
>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf                      |   3 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-inject.c                   |   4 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c                   | 285 +++++++++++++++---
>  tools/perf/builtin-report.c                   |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-version.c                  |   2 +
>  tools/perf/perf.h                             |   2 +
>  .../tests/shell/record+zstd_comp_decomp.sh    |  28 ++
>  tools/perf/util/Build                         |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/compress.h                    |  54 ++++
>  tools/perf/util/env.h                         |  11 +
>  tools/perf/util/event.c                       |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/event.h                       |   7 +
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c                      |   8 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.h                      |   3 +-
>  tools/perf/util/header.c                      |  55 +++-
>  tools/perf/util/header.h                      |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/mmap.c                        | 106 ++-----
>  tools/perf/util/mmap.h                        |  17 +-
>  tools/perf/util/session.c                     | 124 +++++++-
>  tools/perf/util/session.h                     |  14 +
>  tools/perf/util/tool.h                        |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/zstd.c                        | 111 +++++++
>  29 files changed, 801 insertions(+), 134 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libzstd.c
>  create mode 100755 tools/perf/tests/shell/record+zstd_comp_decomp.sh
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/zstd.c
> 
> ---
> Changes in v9:
> - fixed issue with improper max COMPRESSED record size calculation
> - moved up calculation of ratio variable in 03/12
> - made minor corrections in changelogs
> - corrected several checkpatch.pl warnings and errors

apart from 2 comments I'm ok with this patchset

Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks a lot,
jirka