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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH 00/14] perf record: Add support to store data in directory
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On 04.02.2019 13:36, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 01:12:11PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03.02.2019 18:30, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>>> hi,
>>> this patchset adds the --dir option to record command (and all
>>> the other record command that overload cmd_record) that allows
>>> the data to be stored in directory with multiple data files.
>>>
>>> It's next step for multiple threads implementation in record.
>>> It's now possible to make directory data via --dir option, like:
>>>
>>> $ perf record --dir perf bench sched messaging
>>
>> Is it possible to name data directory differently from perf.data
>> e.g. using --output option, like this?
>>
>> $ perf record --output result_1 --dir perf bench sched messaging
>
>
> yep, it's taken into account:
>
> [jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf record --output result_1 --dir ./perf bench sched messaging
> Couldn't synthesize bpf events.
> # Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark:
> # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
> # 10 groups == 400 processes run
>
> Total time: 0.177 [sec]
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.316 MB result_1 (7225 samples) ]
>
> [jolsa@krava perf]$ ll result_1/
> total 348
> -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 27624 Feb 4 11:35 data.0
> -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 56672 Feb 4 11:35 data.1
> -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 30824 Feb 4 11:35 data.2
> -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 49136 Feb 4 11:35 data.3
> -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 22712 Feb 4 11:35 data.4
> -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 53392 Feb 4 11:35 data.5
> -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 43352 Feb 4 11:35 data.6
> -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 46688 Feb 4 11:35 data.7
> -rw-------. 1 jolsa jolsa 9068 Feb 4 11:35 header

Awesome. What do you think about having it like this:

$ perf record --output result_1.data ... - writes data to a file

$ perf record --dir result_1 ... - or even
$ perf record --output_dir result_1 ... - writes data into a directory

IMHO, this interface is simpler for a user.

Thanks,
Alexey

>
> jirka
>

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