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Subject: Re: Unified tracing buffer
From: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net>
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On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 07:00 -0700, Martin Bligh wrote:
> > - get rid of anything having to do with padding, nobody needs it and its
> > only affect has been to horribly distort and complicate a lot of the
> > code
> > - get rid of sub-buffers, they just cause confusion
> > - get rid of mmap, nobody uses it
> > - no sub-buffers and no mmap support means we can get rid of most of the
> > callbacks, and a lot of API confusion along with them
> > - add relay flags - they probably should have been used from the
> > beginning and options made explicit instead of being shoehorned into the
> > callback functions.
> 
> Actually, I think if you did all that, it'd be pretty close to what we
> want anyway ...

OK, then, I'll continue with the cleanup patchset and see where it
goes...

Tom