From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@chromium.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>,
Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sonnyrao@chromium.org,
olofj@chromium.org, eranian@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Perf: bug fix: distinguish between rename and exec
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:30:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329327045.2293.156.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3BE3F9.2010002@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 09:57 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
>
> I'm not Acme, but I do care. We use a lot of processes with named
> threads that give users an idea about the function of a particular
> thread.
>
But why would they care? If you're debugging its easy enough to see from
the backtrace and if you're not, most tools like top/ps don't even show
threads (by default).
So who cares what threads are called.
I realize I'm not going to convince anybody, but I genuinely don't see
the point of naming threads.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-15 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-14 4:56 [PATCH] Perf: bug fix: distinguish between rename and exec Luigi Semenzato
2012-02-15 12:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-15 13:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-02-15 17:07 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-02-15 17:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-03-02 13:44 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-03-02 14:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-03-02 15:25 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-02-15 16:57 ` David Ahern
2012-02-15 17:22 ` Luigi Semenzato
2012-02-15 17:30 ` David Ahern
2012-02-15 17:30 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-02-15 18:55 ` David Ahern
[not found] ` <CABPqkBTJHOsSfMBMW17reBObLW0bphWZo4AjVh_hTkv5tBHtDA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-15 18:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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