Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:09:54 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
       lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] perf trace: support for general-purpose
	scripting
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* Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Known problems/shortcomings:
> 
> Probably the biggest problem right now is the sorting hack I added as 
> the last patch.  It's just meant as a temporary thing, but is there 
> because tracing scripts in general want to see events in the order 
> they happened i.e. timestamp order. [...]

Btw., have you seen the -M/--multiplex option to perf record? It 
multiplexes all events into a single buffer - making them all ordered. 
(The events are in causal ordering in this case even if there's some TSC 
asynchronity)

	Ingo
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