Re: [GIT PULL] perf update

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Jun 09 2011 - 08:35:31 EST


On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 01:43:13PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 16:56 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > >
> > > > Frederic Weisbecker (1):
> > > > perf: Split up buffer handling from core code
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > kernel/events/Makefile | 2 +-
> > > > kernel/events/buffer.c | 400 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > kernel/events/core.c | 458 ++--------------------------------------------
> > > > kernel/events/internal.h | 70 +++++++
> > > > 4 files changed, 487 insertions(+), 443 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Looks about right.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > thanks, i'll pull it it and test it.
>
> Note, i ended up applying it by hand:
>
> - fixed a build error,
>
> - streamlined the renaming: we really want this to be ring_buffer.c
> (most of the complexity comes from this not being a simple buffer
> but a ring-buffer)
>
> - i streamlined the naming around it: struct ring_buffer
> internalized via internal.h (it does not clash with ftrace's
> ring-buffer)
>
> It all looks and reads much nicer now, but please double check the
> commit as well :-)
>
> One other rename i'd like to do is:
>
> struct perf_output_handle => struct rb_handle
>
> perf_output_begin() => rb_open()
> perf_output_copy() => rb_write()
> perf_output_sample() => rb_write_sample()
> perf_output_end() => rb_close()
>
> Which really makes it a lot more apparent that it's a regular
> input/output flow defined over the ring-buffer!
>
> I can do this if this is fine with everyone. There will be no change
> in functionality.

I feel more comfortable if we keep the perf_outpout_*() naming, having some
global rb_* would pollute the global namespace.

perf_rb_* namespace would be fine as well.

Thanks.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
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