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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Exit recording if events have non matching
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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 17:33 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> > For record that means we need to dump each per-sample_id mmap onto a
> > separate file, i.e. use a directory, etc.
> 
> That seems like a major re-write of perf. 

Well we want to go there anyway. A file per cpu stream can be a lot less
overhead than one file for all cpu streams.