From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ftrace: show buffer size in kilobytes
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:54:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081112215430.588142df@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081113051105.827635641@goodmis.org>
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:09:35 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> Impact: change the units of buffer_size to kilobytes
>
> This patch changes the units of the buffer_size file to kilobytes.
> Reading and writing to the file uses kilobytes as units. To help
> users to know what units are used, the output of the file now
> looks like:
>
> # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size
> 1408 (units kilobytes)
I much rather would call the file
buffer_size_kb
and then be done with it... that seems to be the convention lately at
least
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-13 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 5:09 [PATCH 0/2] ftrace patches for tip Steven Rostedt
2008-11-13 5:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: do not update max buffer with no users Steven Rostedt
2008-11-13 5:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] ftrace: show buffer size in kilobytes Steven Rostedt
2008-11-13 5:54 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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