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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ze Gao <zegao@tencent.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] sched, tracing: report task state in symbolic chars instead
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:55:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230725175536.5449807c@rorschach.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230725201603.GB3784071@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:16:03 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > Now, because the old tools still do the parsing of this format, we can
> > add a new field called prev_state_char that will give you this. Now to
> > save space, we should change prev_state to int (can't make it short as
> > there's that test for "+" which does sometimes happen). I believe we
> > can make prev_prio and next prio into shorts (and possibly chars!).  
> 
> Or just leave the thing alone?

Sure, but I would like to change the fields to smaller ones just so
that the event wastes less space on the buffer.

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-25 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-25  7:22 [RFC PATCH 0/3] report task state in symbolic chars in sched tracepoints Ze Gao
2023-07-25  7:22 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] sched, tracing: report task state in symbolic chars instead Ze Gao
2023-07-25  8:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-25 10:53     ` Ze Gao
2023-07-25 13:31       ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-25 20:13         ` Steven Rostedt
2023-07-25 17:59   ` Steven Rostedt
2023-07-25 20:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-25 21:55       ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2023-07-26  2:48         ` Ze Gao
2023-07-26  2:41     ` Ze Gao
2023-07-25  7:22 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] perf sched: sync with latest sched_switch tracepoint definition Ze Gao
2023-07-25  7:22 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] libtraceevent: " Ze Gao

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