Re: [PATCH v5 13/17] perf: Support deferred user callchains

Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Thu, 8 May 2025 14:54:39 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-toolchains,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-perf-users,org.kernel.vger.linux-trace-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 8 May 2025 14:49:59 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> wrote:

> AFAIR, the cookie method generates the cookie by combining the cpu
> number with a per-cpu count.
> 
> This ensures that there are not two cookies emitted at the same time
> from two CPUs that have the same value by accident.
> 
> How would the timestamp method prevent this ?

Do we care? It only needs to be unique per pid doesn't it?

-- Steve