diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 59f3d98a0196d1..48c3461b496c4a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ struct record {
 	struct perf_tool	tool;
 	struct record_opts	opts;
 	u64			bytes_written;
+	u64			thread_bytes_written;
 	struct perf_data	data;
 	struct auxtrace_record	*itr;
 	struct evlist	*evlist;
@@ -226,14 +227,7 @@ static bool switch_output_time(struct record *rec)
 
 static u64 record__bytes_written(struct record *rec)
 {
-	int t;
-	u64 bytes_written = rec->bytes_written;
-	struct record_thread *thread_data = rec->thread_data;
-
-	for (t = 0; t < rec->nr_threads; t++)
-		bytes_written += thread_data[t].bytes_written;
-
-	return bytes_written;
+	return rec->bytes_written + rec->thread_bytes_written;
 }
 
 static bool record__output_max_size_exceeded(struct record *rec)
@@ -255,10 +249,12 @@ static int record__write(struct record *rec, struct mmap *map __maybe_unused,
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	if (map && map->file)
+	if (map && map->file) {
 		thread->bytes_written += size;
-	else
+		rec->thread_bytes_written += size;
+	} else {
 		rec->bytes_written += size;
+	}
 
 	if (record__output_max_size_exceeded(rec) && !done) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "[ perf record: perf size limit reached (%" PRIu64 " KB),"