linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] trace: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic

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Message-ID: <1336586058.14207.211.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 May 2012 13:54:18 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Laurent Chavey <chavey@...gle.com>,
	Justin Teravest <teravest@...gle.com>,
	David Sharp <dhsharp@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] trace: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 10:46 -0700, Vaibhav Nagarnaik wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > This is far from a hot path. In fact, it's quite slow. Lets not uglify
> > code just to optimize something that's not time critical.
> >
> > Please combine these two into a single loop. The wait for completion is
> > fine as a separate loop.
> >
> 
> Sure, I will update the patch with that change. Have you found any
> other issues in testing the patch?
> 

Nope, not yet. Sorry for the spotty checks, I'm doing several other
things in between.

-- Steve


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