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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:06:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9B92A0.7020009@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090831085908.GA656@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> init_preds() allocates about 5392 bytes of memory (on x86_32) for
>> a TRACE_EVENT. With my config, at system boot total memory occupied
>> is:
>>
>> 	5392 * (642 + 15) == 3459KB
>>
>> 642 == cat available_events | wc -l
>> 15 == number of dirs in events/ftrace
>>
>> That's quite a lot, so we'd better defer memory allocation util
>> it's needed, that's when filter is used.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks!
> 
>> tracing/kprobe needs rebase after this patch..
> 
> You mean with many probes registered it has a lot of memory 

I think so, if filter is used.

> footprint? Instead of a rebase a merge of tracing/core into 
> tracing/kprobes would be less intrusive.
> 

Yeah, I meant this patch conflicts with some patches in
tracing/kprobe. :)


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-31  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-31  8:49 [PATCH] tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation Li Zefan
2009-08-31  8:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-31  9:06   ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-09-01 12:58     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-08-31  9:00 ` [tip:tracing/core] " tip-bot for Li Zefan
2009-08-31 17:41 ` [PATCH] " Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-01  0:50   ` Li Zefan
2009-09-01  5:31   ` [PATCH] tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak Li Zefan
2009-09-01  9:32     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-06  4:36     ` [tip:tracing/core] " tip-bot for Li Zefan
2009-09-01  3:28 ` [PATCH] tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation Tom Zanussi

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