Re: [PATCH 5/6] perf_counter: kerneltop: mmap_pages argument

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> provide a knob to set the number of mmap data pages.

> +	" -m pages  --mmap_pages=<pages> # number of mmap data pages\n"

Btw., we really want this to be auto-tuning to a large degree. If 
the kernel observes missed events, it should create a 
PERF_EVENT_OVERFLOW==0x3 record, with the number of missed events - 
or something like that.

	Ingo
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