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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	David Sharp <dsharp@google.com>,
	Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing: Remove useless 4 bytes of padding from every event
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 12:36:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB401B2.1010906@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzVngkixn-t0mK8QqgnPhCzN2AsUtzfZ3BkLiJAcjNOzQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/16/2012 12:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>>
>> But this change will break PowerTop v1. Thus my question is, how long do
>> we need to keep this wasted space in the ring buffers to satisfy an out
>> of date tool?
> 
> The wasted space seems of limited importance.
> 
> More important is to check which distros have the new powertop.
> 
> F16 and F17 seem to have powertop-1.98, which I assume is the new
> world order already. But maybe I assume incorrectly.

this is the one that will break

> 
> F14 (which I personally still use, since it doesn't have gnome3) is 1.13.

this one is fine, it does not use perf events at all.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-16 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-16 13:44 [RFC][PATCH] tracing: Remove useless 4 bytes of padding from every event Steven Rostedt
2012-05-16 17:24 ` [RFC][PATCH v2] " Steven Rostedt
2012-05-16 19:33 ` [RFC][PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2012-05-16 19:36   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2012-05-16 19:47     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-16 19:51     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-16 20:03       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-17  8:04         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-16 20:00   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-16 20:04     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-16 20:07       ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-16 20:13         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-16 20:14         ` Dave Jones
2012-05-16 20:16           ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-17  8:06             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-17 12:11               ` Steven Rostedt

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