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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] writeback: Add tracing to balance_dirty_pages
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:12:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100621081230.GB19290@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277083526-21002-3-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

> +/* pass flags explicitly */

which flags?

> +	TP_fast_assign(
> +		char *__name = "(none)";
> +
> +		__entry->wbc		= (unsigned long)wbc & 0xffff;

The wbc generally is allocated on stack, does it reall make sense to
keep this?

> +		if (wbc->bdi)
> +			strncpy(__entry->name, dev_name(wbc->bdi->dev), 16);
> +		else
> +			strncpy(__entry->name, __name, 16);

> +		__entry->sb		= !!wbc->sb;

The bdi and sb fields are now gone from the writeback_control.  But
I think passing the bdi explicitly for the device name makes sense
here.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-21  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-21  1:25 [PATCH 0/3] writeback: tracing support Dave Chinner
2010-06-21  1:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] writeback: initial " Dave Chinner
2010-06-21  8:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21  1:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] writeback: Add tracing to balance_dirty_pages Dave Chinner
2010-06-21  8:12   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-21  1:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] writeback: Add tracing to write_cache_pages Dave Chinner
2010-06-24 12:12 ` [PATCH 0/3] writeback: tracing support Jens Axboe
2010-06-24 22:16   ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-06 23:41 [PATCH 0/3] writeback: Tracing support V2 Dave Chinner
2010-07-06 23:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] writeback: Add tracing to balance_dirty_pages Dave Chinner
2010-07-07  2:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07  3:11     ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-07  3:24 [PATCH 0/3] writeback: Tracing support V3 Dave Chinner
2010-07-07  3:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] writeback: Add tracing to balance_dirty_pages Dave Chinner

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