perf: Generalize perf lock's sample event reordering to the session layer

The sample events recorded by perf record are not time ordered
because we have one buffer per cpu for each event (even demultiplexed
per task/per cpu for task bound events). But when we read trace events
we want them to be ordered by time because many state machines are
involved.

There are currently two ways perf tools deal with that:

- use -M to multiplex every buffers (perf sched, perf kmem)
  But this creates a lot of contention in SMP machines on
  record time.

- use a post-processing time reordering (perf timechart, perf lock)
  The reordering used by timechart is simple but doesn't scale well
  with huge flow of events, in terms of performance and memory use
  (unusable with perf lock for example).
  Perf lock has its own samples reordering that flushes its memory
  use in a regular basis and that uses a sorting based on the
  previous event queued (a new event to be queued is close to the
  previous one most of the time).

This patch proposes to export perf lock's samples reordering facility
to the session layer that reads the events. So if a tool wants to
get ordered sample events, it needs to set its
struct perf_event_ops::ordered_samples to true and that's it.

This prepares tracing based perf tools to get rid of the need to
use buffers multiplexing (-M) or to implement their own
reordering.

Also lower the flush period to 2 as it's sufficient already.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.h b/tools/perf/util/session.h
index 5e47c87b926..796e2291ebd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.h
@@ -8,9 +8,17 @@
 #include <linux/rbtree.h>
 #include "../../../include/linux/perf_event.h"
 
+struct sample_queue;
 struct ip_callchain;
 struct thread;
 
+struct ordered_samples {
+	u64			last_flush;
+	u64			flush_limit;
+	struct list_head	samples_head;
+	struct sample_queue	*last_inserted;
+};
+
 struct perf_session {
 	struct perf_header	header;
 	unsigned long		size;
@@ -28,6 +36,7 @@ struct perf_session {
 	bool			fd_pipe;
 	int			cwdlen;
 	char			*cwd;
+	struct ordered_samples	ordered_samples;
 	char filename[0];
 };
 
@@ -47,6 +56,7 @@ struct perf_event_ops {
 		 event_type,
 		 tracing_data,
 		 build_id;
+	bool	ordered_samples;
 };
 
 struct perf_session *perf_session__new(const char *filename, int mode, bool force);