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authorAlexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>2019-01-22 20:52:03 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-02-11 18:32:21 +0300
commitf4fe11b7bf7ff6a1ccf15d7a9484f0ff7d1e92ae (patch)
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perf record: Implement --affinity=node|cpu option
Implement --affinity=node|cpu option for the record mode defaulting to system affinity mask bouncing. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/083f5422-ece9-10dd-8305-bf59c860f10f@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -454,6 +454,11 @@ Use <n> control blocks in asynchronous (Posix AIO) trace writing mode (default:
Asynchronous mode is supported only when linking Perf tool with libc library
providing implementation for Posix AIO API.
+--affinity=mode::
+Set affinity mask of trace reading thread according to the policy defined by 'mode' value:
+ node - thread affinity mask is set to NUMA node cpu mask of the processed mmap buffer
+ cpu - thread affinity mask is set to cpu of the processed mmap buffer
+
--all-kernel::
Configure all used events to run in kernel space.