Re: [PATCH v7 0/8] perf: add support for analyzing events for containers

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From	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH v7 0/8] perf: add support for analyzing events for containers
Date	Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:20:02 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 07:31:11PM +0530, Hari Bathini wrote:
> Currently, there is no trivial mechanism to analyze events based on
> containers. perf -G can be used, but it will not filter events for the                  
> containers created after perf is invoked, making it difficult to assess/
> analyze performance issues of multiple containers at once.
> 
> This patch-set is aimed at addressing this limitation by introducing a
> new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event that records namespaces related info.
> As containers are created with namespaces, the new data can be used to
> in assessment/analysis of multiple containers.
> 
> The first patch introduces PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES in kernel while the
> second patch makes the corresponding changes in perf tool to read this
> PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES events. The third patch demonstrates analysis
> of containers with this data by adding a cgroup identifier column in
> perf report, which contains the cgroup namespace's device and inode
> numbers. This is based on the assumption that each container is created
> with it's own cgroup namespace. The third patch has scope for improvement
> based on the conventions a container is attributed with, going forward.
> 
> Changes from v6:
> * Updated changelog of patch 1
> * Split patch 2 into smaller patches
> * Updated record and script documenatation
> * Dropped name field from ns_link_info struct

what's this version based on? I can't cleanly apply it neither
on tip's perf/core or master or Arnaldo's perf/core

thanks,
jirka

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[PATCH v7 0/8] perf: add support for analyzing events for containers Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-21 15:10 +0100
  [PATCH v7 8/8] perf tool: add cgroup identifier entry in perf report Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-21 15:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v7 8/8] perf tool: add cgroup identifier entry in perf  report Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2017-02-22 17:50 +0100
  [PATCH v7 5/8] perf tool: add print support for namespace events Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-21 15:10 +0100
  [PATCH v7 3/8] perf tool: update about the new option to record  namespace events Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-21 15:10 +0100
  [PATCH v7 6/8] perf tool: add script print support for namespace  events Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-21 15:10 +0100
  [PATCH v7 4/8] perf tool: synthesize namespace events for current  processes Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-21 15:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v7 0/8] perf: add support for analyzing events for  containers Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2017-02-22 12:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v7 0/8] perf: add support for analyzing events for  containers Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-22 13:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v7 0/8] perf: add support for analyzing events for  containers Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2017-02-22 15:00 +0100

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