From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] please pull ummunotify Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:45:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20091002204528.GC29734@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1253187028.8439.2.camel@twins> <1253198976.14935.27.camel@laptop> <20090929171332.GD14405@elf.ucw.cz> <20090930094456.GD24621@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Roland Dreier Cc: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Paul Mackerras , Anton Blanchard , general-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org, akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Hi! > In the end this seems to just take the ummunotify code I have, and make > it be a new type of perf counter instead of a character special device. > I'd actually be OK with that, since having an oddball new char dev > interface is not particularly nice. But on the other hand just > multiplexing a new type of thing under perf events is not all that much > better. What do you think? I really hate the strange character device. So if you can hide it in tracing infrastructure, I'd certainly like that. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html