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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:36:05 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: "K. Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dipankar@...ibm.com, ego@...ibm.com, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, mingo@...e.hu Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Markers Implementation for RCU Tracing On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:11:28AM +0530, K. Prasad wrote: > Hi, > Please review the ensuing set of patches which convert the > existing RCU tracing mechanism for Preempt RCU and RCU Boost into > markers. > > These patches are based upon the 2.6.24-rc2-rt1 kernel tree. > > Along with marker transition, the RCU Tracing infrastructure has also > been modularised to be built as a kernel module, thereby enabling > runtime changes to the RCU Tracing infrastructure. > > Patch [1/2] - Patch that converts the Preempt RCU tracing in > rcupreempt.c into markers. > > Patch [1/2] - Patch that converts the Preempt RCU Boost tracing in > rcupreempt-boost.c into markers. Looks good to me, though I do not pretend to understand the markers implementation. I presume that the markers implementation forces the varargs usage -- though the markers do seem quite a bit nicer in allowing the formatting to be specified more naturally. Thanx, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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