already committed. It is thus possible for slow producers to temporarily hold
off submitted records, that were reserved later.
-Reservation/commit/consumer protocol is verified by litmus tests in
-Documentation/litmus_tests/bpf-rb/_.
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One interesting implementation bit, that significantly simplifies (and thus
speeds up as well) implementation of both producers and consumers is how data
area is mapped twice contiguously back-to-back in the virtual memory. This
being available after commit only if consumer has already caught up right up to
the record being committed. If not, consumer still has to catch up and thus
will see new data anyways without needing an extra poll notification.
-Benchmarks (see tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_ringbuf.c_) show that
+Benchmarks (see tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_ringbufs.c_) show that
this allows to achieve a very high throughput without having to resort to
tricks like "notify only every Nth sample", which are necessary with perf
buffer. For extreme cases, when BPF program wants more manual control of