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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	roland@redhat.com, rth@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] RFC: jump label - (tracepoint optimizations)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:45:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252010706.9808.19.camel@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1252007851.git.jbaron@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:25 -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Problem:
> 
> Currenly, tracepoints are implemented using a conditional. The conditional
> check requires checking a global variable for each tracepoint. Although,
> the overhead of this check is small, it increases under memory pressure. As we
> increase the number of tracepoints in the kernel this may become more of an
> issue. In addition, tracepoints are often dormant (disabled), and provide no
> direct kernel functionality. Thus, it is highly desirable to reduce their
> impact as much as possible. Mathieu Desnoyers has already suggested a number of
> requirements for a solution to this issue.

Could you run your patches though scripts/checkpatch.pl and clean up any
errors.. It looks like you have some style issues in a few of the
patches.

Daniel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-03 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03 20:25 [PATCH 0/4] RFC: jump label - (tracepoint optimizations) Jason Baron
2009-09-03 20:25 ` [PATCH 1/4] RFC: basic jump label implementation Jason Baron
2009-09-03 20:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] RFC: jump label example usage Jason Baron
2009-09-03 20:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] RFC: implement tracepoints on top of jump patching Jason Baron
2009-09-03 20:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] RFC: performance testing harness Jason Baron
2009-09-03 20:45 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2009-09-03 21:01 ` [PATCH 0/4] RFC: jump label - (tracepoint optimizations) Ingo Molnar
2009-09-03 21:11   ` Roland McGrath
2009-09-07 15:48 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-09-07 17:06   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-09-10 21:15     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-09-08 20:48   ` Jason Baron

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