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Message-ID: <00247f4a-1637-b7fe-2408-07330fcb3171@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:39:36 +0300
From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
To: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>,
Dmitri Prokhorov <Dmitry.Prohorov@...el.com>,
Valery Cherepennikov <valery.cherepennikov@...el.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4]: perf/core: use rb trees for pinned/flexible
groups
Hi,
On 18.07.2017 15:29, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com> writes:
>
>> +/*
>> + * Helper function to test if event groups are empty;
>> + */
>> +static int
>> +perf_event_groups_empty(struct perf_event_groups *groups)
>> +{
>> + return list_empty(&groups->list);
>> +}
>
> This doesn't seem useful, it's only used once. Also, it's not clear how
> access to groups->list is serialized here, but it is in the caller.
Acepted. That API is removed in the final patch where list is replaced by rbtree.
>
> I'm assuming you will use this helper after the linked lists are done
> away with, but I'll have to go fishing for that patch to make sure.
>
>> +static void
>> +perf_event_groups_insert(struct perf_event_groups *groups,
>> + struct perf_event *event)
>> +{
>> + struct rb_node **node;
>> + struct rb_node *parent;
>> + struct perf_event *node_event;
>> +
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!groups || !event);
>
> I'm pretty sure neither of these is plausible.
Used that for debugging. Does it affect performance somehow?
>
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&event->group_list_entry));
>
> So ctx::lock is held here, right? That could be a useful assert and/or
> comment at least for review purposes. Now I see that it's called from
> list_add_event().
Agree.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Alex
>
Thanks,
Alexey
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