netdev - Re: [RFC] btf: Some structs are doubled because of struct ring

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Date:   Fri, 13 Dec 2019 13:43:33 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 
        <toke@...hat.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@...ronome.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] btf: Some structs are doubled because of struct
 ring_buffer

On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:36:46 +0100
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:

> > Thinking about this, perhaps we should remove the word "ring" from
> > both. That is:
> > 
> >   perf_buffer and trace_buffer ?  
> 
> sounds good to me.. and too good to be true ;-)
> please let me know if I should send the perf change

Note, changing the other one is a lot more invasive. It's not as easy
as I thought. I forgot that even blktrace uses it. And a lot of the
trace event code is tied to the ring buffer code, as well as every
tracer.

-- Steve