perfetto: Add opt-in shift-left compaction to TraceBufferV2 In long streaming sessions the consumer periodically drains the buffer, but the freed space stays resident: consumed chunks are only turned into padding, so a buffer keeps roughly its full size in dirty pages even when almost everything in it has been read. Teach TraceBufferV2 to compact itself in BeginRead(), the only point where no read iterators or packet slices can be outstanding. When at least 64 KB is reclaimable and at most 1/8th of the initialized region is still live, live chunks are packed to the front of the buffer preserving ring order, the per-sequence chunk index is re-pointed to the new offsets, used_size_ shrinks accordingly and the now-unused whole pages are released back to the OS via AdviseDontNeed(). The feature only applies to kOverwrite buffers and is gated by the tbv2_shift_left_compaction aconfig flag (default off). A new per-buffer `compactions` counter in TraceStats.BufferStats makes the behavior observable in traces. Bug: 536851377
Perfetto is an open-source suite of SDKs, daemons and tools which use tracing to help developers understand the behaviour of complex systems and root-cause functional and performance issues on client and embedded systems.
It is a production-grade tool that is the default tracing system for the Android operating system and the Chromium browser.
Perfetto is not a single tool, but a collection of components that work together:
Perfetto was designed to be a versatile and powerful tracing system for a wide range of use cases.
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