Re: [PATCH v5 00/16] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode

From: David Carrillo-Cisneros
Date: Tue Jul 18 2017 - 00:38:01 EST


On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 6:39 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/11/17 5:52 PM, David Carrillo-Cisneros wrote:
> ...
>> (This is a rebased and updated version of Stephane Eranian's version
>> in https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1499081/)
>
> ...
>> With this series, it is possible to get:
>> $ perf record -o - -e cycles sleep 1 | perf report --stdio --header
>> # ========
>> # captured on: Mon May 22 16:33:43 2017
>> # ========
>> #
>> # hostname : my_hostname
>> # os release : 4.11.0-dbx-up_perf
>> # perf version : 4.11.rc6.g6277c80
>> # arch : x86_64
>> # nrcpus online : 72
>> # nrcpus avail : 72
>> # cpudesc : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2696 v3 @ 2.30GHz
>> # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,63,2
>> # total memory : 263457192 kB
>> # cmdline : /root/perf record -e cycles sleep 1
>> # event : name = cycles, , size = 112, { sample_period, sample_freq } = 4000, sample_type = IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled = 1, inherit = 1, mmap = 1, comm = 1, freq = 1, enable_on_exec = 1, task = 1, sample_id_all = 1, exclude_guest = 1, mmap2 = 1, comm_exec = 1
>> # CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
>> # NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
>> # pmu mappings: intel_bts = 6, cpu = 4, msr = 49, uncore_cbox_10 = 36, [SNIP]
>> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
>> ...
>
> I like it; much needed functionality.

Great to read! Hopefully v6 will make it.

David