Re: [RFC] btf: Some structs are doubled because of struct ring_buffer

Steven Rostedt
2019-12-13T20:40:41Z

On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:36:46 +0100
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:

> > Thinking about this, perhaps we should remove the word "ring" from
> > both. That is:
> >
> > perf_buffer and trace_buffer ?
>
> sounds good to me.. and too good to be true ;-)
> please let me know if I should send the perf change

Note, changing the other one is a lot more invasive. It's not as easy
as I thought. I forgot that even blktrace uses it. And a lot of the
trace event code is tied to the ring buffer code, as well as every
tracer.

-- Steve