Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf: Add persistent event facilities

[Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>]

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 02:40:46AM -0400, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I really like this new kernel/events/ subdirectory you created -

Yeah, this was your suggestion a couple of months ago, I just picked it
up.

> we could move the other perf_events.c facilities there as well, and
> maybe split up the file a bit, it's 7.5 KLOC now which is a bit
> excessive.

Right, so I left perf_event.c as a whole on purpose (only renamed)
because it makes more sense IMHO for someone who actually wrote it to
split it in logical parts (^hint hint^). I mean, I could do it too but
it'll take me much more time :).

> We should probably do that before adding kernel/events/persistent.c - wanna do 
> those changes? Initial commit should be a mostly-rename thing: 
> kernel/perf_events.c could move into kernel/events/core.c or so - and then we 
> could split the core up some more, into various facilities.
> 
> [ kernel/hw_breakpoint.c could possibly move into kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c 
>   file as well - if Frederic acks it. ]

Yeah, no problem.

Thanks for the review, btw.

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