Hi,
On 08.10.2018 13:55, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 09:19:17AM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
<SNIP>
>> +#ifdef HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
>> + if (!strcmp(var, "record.aio-cblocks"))
>> + rec->opts.nr_cblocks = strtol(value, NULL, 0);
>> +#endif
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>> @@ -1837,6 +1864,10 @@ static struct option __record_options[] = {
>> "signal"),
>> OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "dry-run", &dry_run,
>> "Parse options then exit"),
>> +#ifdef HAVE_AIO_SUPPORT
>> + OPT_INTEGER(0, "aio-cblocks", &record.opts.nr_cblocks,
>> + "Max number of simultaneous per-mmap trace writes (default:
>> 0 - serial, max: 4)"),
>> +#endif
>
> could you please move the option to enable that to the previou patch?
> so we could test the simple variant as well
Ok.
>
> also I think it'd be better if we have simple '--aio' option that would
> enable this with some default values.. and add --aio-cblocks to configure
> that further
Well, absence of --aio option, on the command line or in .perfconfig, or
--aio=0
means serial writing.
>From this perspective perf record --aio --aio-cblocks=N looks like a
>complication.
Thanks,
Alexey
