Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:27:48 -0300
From: Arnaldo Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf session: Add option to copy events when queueing
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Em Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:23:32AM +0100, David Ahern escreveu:
> On 10/24/13 10:30 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >Bah, checking that again, there don't seem to be a bug there. Actually
> >the sample buffer is reset after we pick the last entry. So it looks
> >all fine. I got confused as usual. Nevermind.
> 
> Ok. I had not come back to this thread since I decided on a
> different route for the event copying. I'll take it out of my to-do
> list.

Can you elaborate on that?

I had this feeling that perhaps we could defer copying the event till it
would be overwritten, something like making a range read only and then
when the event would be _really_ consumed the tooling would mark it as
so... Have to think about it more tho :-\

- Arnaldo
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