From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ring-buffer: Limit time with disabled interrupts in rb_check_pages()
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:10:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240711101009.5ebcc6ec@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07b88f71-5b77-4c16-bd55-3f5e3812c93e@suse.com>
On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 13:03:47 +0200
Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> wrote:
> > I'm dumb. What's an "era"?
>
> I meant it as a calendar era or epoch. The idea was to hint this is
> a number that identifies some structural state of the pages list. Maybe
> pages_gen ("generation") or another name would be better?
Ah, out of context I thought it was short for something. Perhaps just use
"cnt" with a comment, as that can be generic enough for what it is.
Thanks,
-- Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-11 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-03 7:53 [PATCH v2] ring-buffer: Limit time with disabled interrupts in rb_check_pages() Petr Pavlu
2024-07-03 21:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-07-04 11:03 ` Petr Pavlu
2024-07-11 14:10 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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