Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Unified tracing buffer | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:31:09 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 00:25 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> - get rid of anything having to do with padding, nobody needs it and its > only affect has been to horribly distort and complicate a lot of the > code > - get rid of sub-buffers, they just cause confusion > - get rid of mmap, nobody uses it > - no sub-buffers and no mmap support means we can get rid of most of the > callbacks, and a lot of API confusion along with them > - add relay flags - they probably should have been used from the > beginning and options made explicit instead of being shoehorned into the > callback functions.
- get rid of the vmap buffers as they cause tlb pressure and eat up precious vspace on 32 bit platforms.
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