Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:24:16 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>,
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        Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf record/report: Process events in order
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:47:35AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner escreveu:
> > Having time ordered output of -D needs more than fixing the time stamp
> > issue. The dump_printf/dump_trace stuff is scattered all over the
> > place. So that needs more code churn, as you want to output the non
> > synth events when the ordered queue is drained.
> 
> We can fix that, but then it was supposed to be a dump, something as it
> comes from the perf.data file.
> 
> Perhaps we need something new, that does ordered dumps, I think we can
> just move all the dump_fprintf stuff to one place, and have calls for
> those where it is now (unordered) and another one from the ordered
> place, but looking at different debug variables?

I have a patch series ready to consolidate all this. Will send soon.

Thanks,

	tglx
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