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In the current implementation, there're 4*4MiB trace buffer and hardware will fill the buffer one by one. The driver will get notified if one buffer is full and then copy data to the AUX buffer. If there's no enough room for the next trace buffer, we'll commit the AUX buffer to the perf core and try to apply a new one. In a typical configuration the AUX buffer will be 16MiB, so we'll commit the data after the whole AUX buffer is occupied. Then the driver cannot apply a new AUX buffer immediately until the committed data is consumed by userspace and then there's room in the AUX buffer again. This patch tries to optimize this by commit the data after one single trace buffer is filled. Since there's still room in the AUX buffer, driver can apply a new one without failure and don't need to wait for the userspace to consume the data. Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010084731.30450-4-yangyicong@huawei.com
Linux kernel
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.