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Message-Id: <20090313083919.43CB.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:47:48 +0900 (JST)
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
Pierre Ossman <drzeus@...eus.cx>, Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>,
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ring-buffer: only allocate buffers for online cpus
> > I don't like this patch.
> > your [1/4] and [2/4] already solve Pierre's problem.
> >
> > using online cpu (not possible cpu) increase performance overhead
> > and messiness.
> > but nobody get benefit ;)
>
> Well, the fact that you can have 15 buffers for non existent CPUs is a big
> benefit. And the overhead was only on the read side, not the write, and
> very limited in overhead for that matter.
>
> But, looking at this, I realized I can get rid of all the
> "get_online_cpus". I originally had the CPU_DOWN_PREPARE remove the
> buffer. But I found it highly annoying during tests, that I lose my data
> when I brought down a CPU. Thus, I removed the code to free the buffer and
> replaced it with the comment explaining this.
>
> The get_online_cpus is to prevent the race where we might remove a buffer.
> But since we do not do that anymore, those get_online_cpus are pretty
> useless.
>
> I'll update the code in a bit.
Great!
from mission critical area view, CPU down event is very important.
I don't hope to lost trace data of downed cpu.
and no get_online_cpus() don't cause annoy overhead.
I love to see your next patch :)
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