Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode

From	David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode
Date	2017-05-18 20:10 +0200
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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> The difficulty in pipe mode is that information needs to be written
>> sequentially to the pipe. Meta data headers are usually generated
>> (and also expected) at the beginning of the file (or piped output).
>> To solve this problem, we introduce new synthetic record types,
>> one for each meta-data type. The approach is similar to what
>> is *ALREADY* used for BUILD_ID and TRACING_DATA.
>
> The new headers need documentation in Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
Will do.

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[PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2017-05-18 06:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-18 07:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2017-05-18 20:10 +0200

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