Re: perf: thread is its own parent

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 07:56:32AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/19/15 7:20 AM, Don Zickus wrote:
> >Honestly I don't recall.   The commit log tells you the problem I was trying
> >to solve.  Instead of parsing text strings from/proc/maps/<pid>, I believe
> >it was waaaay faster to copy the thread maps.
> >
> >This could have been an oversight.  I might have falsely assumed tgid ==
> >ppid?
> >
> >Are you finding a problem with it?
> 
> 
> rebasing my scheduling timehist command to 4.0 and this change
> breaks one of the options. If there are no objections I'll send a
> patch along with others to set ptid and ppid to -1 (that's what it
> is in 3.12).

Hmm, I wonder if this is going to break our threading example.  Perhaps not,
now that Jiri made some other changes later.  Feel free to post a patch, cc
me please.  I will patch our perf over here and have Joe Mario run some
tests to see if we lose any data or not and let you know.

Cheers,
Don