Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] sched, tracing: report task state in symbolic chars instead

[Ze Gao]

I'd like to try this one, and request for another RFC.

Regards,
Ze

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 5:55 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:16:03 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Now, because the old tools still do the parsing of this format, we can
> > > add a new field called prev_state_char that will give you this. Now to
> > > save space, we should change prev_state to int (can't make it short as
> > > there's that test for "+" which does sometimes happen). I believe we
> > > can make prev_prio and next prio into shorts (and possibly chars!).
> >
> > Or just leave the thing alone?
>
> Sure, but I would like to change the fields to smaller ones just so
> that the event wastes less space on the buffer.
>
> -- Steve