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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] ring-buffer: remove unneeded conditional in rb_reserve_next
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:23:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090507082303.GE12285@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090507031433.562803300@goodmis.org>


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> 
> The code in __rb_reserve_next checks on page overflow if it is the
> original commiter and then resets the page back to the original
> setting.  Although this is fine, and the code is correct, it is
> a bit fragil. Some experimental work I did breaks it easily.

s/fragil/fragile

> The better and more robust solution is to have all commiters that
> overflow the page, simply subtract what they added.
> 
> [ Impact: more robust ring buffer account management ]

it's a bit faster too (eliminates two branches) - so a 
micro-optimization as well.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-07  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-07  3:13 [PATCH 0/7] [GIT PULL] tracing/ring-buffer: more updates for tip Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07  3:13 ` [PATCH 1/7] ring-buffer: remove unneeded conditional in rb_reserve_next Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07  8:23   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-05-07  3:13 ` [PATCH 2/7] ring-buffer: check for failed allocation in ring buffer benchmark Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07  3:13 ` [PATCH 3/7] ring-buffer: make moving the tail page a separate function Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07  8:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 13:26     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07 13:56       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07  3:13 ` [PATCH 4/7] ring-buffer: change test to be more latency friendly Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07  8:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07  8:34     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 13:51     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07  3:13 ` [PATCH 5/7] tracing: update sample with TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07  3:13 ` [PATCH 6/7] tracing: reset ring buffer when removing modules with events Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07  3:51   ` Li Zefan
2009-05-07 16:24   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-07  3:13 ` [PATCH 7/7] tracing: add hierarchical enabling of events Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07  3:51   ` Li Zefan
2009-05-07 13:21     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-08  1:11       ` Li Zefan
2009-05-08  1:23         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-08  1:24           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-07 16:28   ` Frederic Weisbecker

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