linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] v3 rudimentary tracing for Classic RCU

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Message-ID: <4907BCFB.8090600@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:31:39 +0800
From:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, rjw@...k.pl,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, tglx@...uxtronix.de, andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] v3 rudimentary tracing for Classic RCU

Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> Ported to 2.6.27 to ease testing, and fixed up the formatting a bit.
> I remember quickly scanning through one-line-per-CPU data to find
> problems with rcutree.c, but the expanded names are quite nice -- I
> had to brutally abbreviate to fit each CPU on a single line.
> And I agree that seqfile does work nicely for this.
> 
> I am strongly tempted to suggest CSV format output with headers to
> allow the data to be pulled into gnumeric or oocalc -- this would
> make handling large numbers of CPUs much easier.  (Quickly donning
> the asbestos suit with titanium pinstripes...)
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> 

Hi, Paul,
	My patch is like an example, you do not need keep the
codes that I have wrote. you can rewrite all of it. these files
are only accessed by RCU guys, not users. and some file in /proc
is very simple but easy to be read: /proc/stat, /proc/loadavg.

			Thanx, Lai.


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