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Message-ID: <20070607073021.GA21139@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:30:21 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Martin Peschke <mp3@...ibm.com>
Cc: "Bill Huey (hui)" <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
jbaron@...hat.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [Patch 4/4] lock contention tracking slimmed down
* Martin Peschke <mp3@...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
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