Re: [PATCH] tools lib fd array: Do not set fd as non blocking evlist

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:27:26PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:09:43PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > > +	fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
> > 
> > also I spot this one and couldn't think of reason for it, attached
> > patch makes no behaviour difference for me..
> 
> Have to look why it is there, perhaps there is some changeset
> specifically made for this, will do some research...
>  
> > I might be missing something, but I dont see any blocking operation
> > in perf related data reads. The git log history says it was there
> > since early days.
> 
> Oops, you did that research already, have you followed the history all
> the way to when this code lived in Documentation/ ?

Since day one, found using:

$ git log -p --follow tools/perf/builtin-top.c

commit e0143bad9dbf2a8fad4c5430562bceba196b66ea
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date:   Mon Mar 23 21:29:59 2009 +0100

    perf_counter: add sample user-space to Documentation/perf_counter/
    
    Initial version of kerneltop.c and perfstat.c.
    
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/kerneltop.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/kerneltop.c


Ingo, do we really need that O_NONBLOCK thing there?

- Arnaldo