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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/13] tools/libperf: introduce notion of static polled file descriptors
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:21:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200622102142.GA2583819@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8351b3ee-d345-a394-d687-443f2d2f7ec4@linux.intel.com>

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:47:19PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:

SNIP

> >>>>>> fdarray__del(array, fdkey);
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think there's solution without having filterable type,
> >>>>> I'm not sure why you think this is needed
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm busy with other things this week, but I think I can
> >>>>> come up with some patch early next week if needed
> >>>>
> >>>> Friendly reminder.
> >>>
> >>> hm? I believe we discussed this in here:
> >>>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200609145611.GI1558310@krava/
> >>
> >> Do you want it to be implemented like in the patch posted by the link?
> > 
> > no idea.. looking for good solution ;-)
> > 
> > how about switching completely to epoll? I tried and it
> > does not look that bad
> 
> Well, epoll() is perhaps possible but why does it want switching to epoll()?
> What are the benefits and/or specific task being solved by this switch? 

epoll change fixes the same issues as the patch you took in v8

on top of it it's not a hack and wil make polling more user
friendly because of the clear interface

> 
> > 
> > there might be some loose ends (interface change), but
> > I think this would solve our problems with fdarray
> 
> Your first patch accomodated in v8 actually avoids fds typing
> and solves pos (=fdarray__add()) staleness issue with fdarray.

yea, it was a change meant for discussion (which never happened),
and I considered it to be more a hack than a solution

I suppose we can live with that for a while, but I'd like to
have clean solution for polling as well

jirka


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-22 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-03 15:47 [PATCH v7 00/13] perf: support enable and disable commands in stat and record modes Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:52 ` [PATCH v7 01/13] tools/libperf: introduce notion of static polled file descriptors Alexey Budankov
2020-06-05 10:50   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-05 11:38     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-05 16:15       ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-08  8:08         ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-08  8:43           ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-08  9:54             ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-08 15:05               ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-08 16:07               ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-08 16:43                 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-08 17:18                   ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-09 14:56                     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-09 18:51                       ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-15 13:13                       ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-15 17:38                       ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-15  5:20                 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-15 12:30                   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-15 14:37                     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-15 16:58                       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-17  9:27                         ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-17  9:39                           ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-22  9:47                         ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-22 10:21                           ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2020-06-22 10:50                             ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-22 12:11                               ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-22 14:04                                 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-23 14:54                                   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-05 11:50     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:53 ` [PATCH v7 02/13] perf evlist: introduce control " Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:54 ` [PATCH v7 03/13] perf evlist: implement control command handling functions Alexey Budankov
2020-06-23 14:54   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-24 11:48     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:55 ` [PATCH v7 04/13] perf stat: factor out body of event handling loop for system wide Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:56 ` [PATCH v7 05/13] perf stat: move target check to loop control statement Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:57 ` [PATCH v7 06/13] perf stat: factor out body of event handling loop for fork case Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:57 ` [PATCH v7 07/13] perf stat: factor out event handling loop into dispatch_events() Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:58 ` [PATCH v7 08/13] perf stat: extend -D,--delay option with -1 value Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:59 ` [PATCH v7 09/13] perf stat: implement control commands handling Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 15:59 ` [PATCH v7 10/13] perf stat: introduce --ctl-fd[-ack] options Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 16:00 ` [PATCH v7 11/13] perf record: extend -D,--delay option with -1 value Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 16:01 ` [PATCH v7 12/13] perf record: implement control commands handling Alexey Budankov
2020-06-03 16:02 ` [PATCH v7 13/13] perf record: introduce --ctl-fd[-ack] options Alexey Budankov
2020-06-05  7:47 ` [PATCH v7 00/13] perf: support enable and disable commands in stat and record modes Alexey Budankov

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