Re: [PATCH V5 1/1] bpf: control events stored in PERF_EVENT_ARRAY maps trace data output when perf sampling

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 06:28:22PM +0800, Wangnan (F) wrote:

information to analysis when glitch happen. Another way we are trying to
implement
now is to dynamically turn events on and off, or at least enable/disable
sampling dynamically because the overhead of copying those samples
is a big part of perf's total overhead. After that we can trace as many
event as possible, but only fetch data from them when we detect a glitch.

So why don't you 'fix' the flight recorder mode and just leave the data
in memory and not bother copying it out until a glitch happens?

Something like this:

lkml.kernel.org/r/20130708121557.GA17211@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net

it appears we never quite finished that.