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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:06:52 +0100
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing/core: make the per cpu trace files in per
	cpu directories
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:41:38AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Impact: scale per cpu tracing
> 
> The per cpu trace files are all in a single directory: /debug/tracing/per_cpu.
> In case of a large number of cpu, the content of this directory becomes messy
> so we create now one directory per cpu inside /debug/tracing/per_cpu which contain
> each their own trace_pipe and trace files.
> 
> Ie:
> 
> nobody@nowhere:/debug/tracing$ ls -R per_cpu
> per_cpu:
> cpu0  cpu1
> 
> per_cpu/cpu0:
> trace  trace_pipe
> 
> per_cpu/cpu1:
> trace  trace_pipe
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>


Oh, I forgot to mention: they apply on top of latest -tip + the ftrace_bprintk 3 patches.