Re: [RFC] [Patch 4/4] lock contention tracking slimmed down

Ingo Molnar
2007-06-07T07:30:40Z

* Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> Bill Huey (hui) wrote:
> > There are roughly about 400 locks in a normal kernel for a desktop. The
> > list is rather cumbersome anyways so, IMO, it really should be handled
> > by parsing tools, etc... There could be more properties attached to each
> > lock especially if you intend to get this to work on -rt which need more
> > things reported.
>
> Adding stuff to an already wide table in a readable fashion is more
> difficult than making a list longer.
>
> Do mean I might submit this stuff for -rt?

Firstly, submit cleanup patches that _do not change the output_. If you
have any output changes, do it as a separate patch, ontop of the cleanup
patch. Mixing material changes and cleanups into a single patch is a
basic patch submission mistake that will only earn you NACKs.

Ingo