Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:16:26 -0200 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Do not fail on processing out of order event |
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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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