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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf tools: Do not fail on processing out of order event
Em Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:07:07PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:53:00AM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:56:03AM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > > Arnaldo, I suppose the fix will go upstream via your tree, as a
> > > pull request for v3.18 fixes?

> > Right, I can do that.

> > And I agree with the "expected" for events that are out of the current
> > reordering window, i.e. we can't insert something into previous windows,
> > so those are, humm, what would be a good name:
> > stats->out_of_reordering_window, while stats->reordered, would be for
> > events that were found out of order, but were successfully sorted as
> > part of a flush operation, right?

> the forced flush is when we find out we crossed the allowed allocation
> space for the samples queue.. so we take the half of the sorted queue
> and flush it.. for this case we break the flushing logic and we might

Well, we make it more likely than without a forced flush to find out of
order events, because the window suddenly became smaller, its like we
found a FLUSH event right there, no?

> (probably just in theory) get out of order events

> but IMO both cases of out of order event are equal.. we dont do
> anything special for forced flushed AFAIK

- Arnaldo


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