Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 16:54:11 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>, x86 <x86@kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, perf: avoid spamming kernel log for bts buffer
 failure
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 03:38:50PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wro=
te:
> > Right, that'd suck. I suppose we could also change that to allocate the
> > DS resources on first demand and never free them again.
> >
> Some may argue that if you never use perf_event again, you are wasting
> (1 + 1 + 4) pages per CPU. That may not be okay on some systems.
>=20
> But yes, it would avoid this problem and also take the penalty for the al=
locs
> only once.

We could of course over engineer this and put a timer on them to free
after 5 minutes to avoid the alloc/free cycle for workloads that
create/destroy events a lot.

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