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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] locking: Add lock contention tracepoints
Hi Mathieu and Steve,

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 9:37 AM Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
>
> ----- On Mar 17, 2022, at 12:07 PM, rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:32:55 -0400 (EDT)
> > Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Unless there is a particular reason for using preprocessor defines here, the
> >> following form is typically better because it does not pollute the preprocessor
> >> defines, e.g.:
> >>
> >> enum lock_contention_flags {
> >> LCB_F_SPIN = 1U << 0;
> >> LCB_F_READ = 1U << 1;
> >> LCB_F_WRITE = 1U << 2;
> >> LCB_F_RT = 1U << 3;
> >> LCB_F_PERCPU = 1U << 4;
> >> };
> >
> > If you do this, then to use the __print_flags(), You'll also need to add:
> >
> > TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(LCB_F_SPIN);
> > TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(LCB_F_READ);
> > TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(LCB_F_WRITE);
> > TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(LCB_F_RT);
> > TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(LCB_F_PERCPU);
> >
> > Which does slow down boot up slightly.
>
> So it looks like there is (currently) a good reason for going with the #define.

Thanks for your suggestions, I'd go with define this time and we could
convert it to enum later (hopefully after the boot time is resolved).

Thanks,
Namhyung

>
> As a side-discussion, I keep finding it odd that this adds overhead on boot. I suspect
> this is also implemented as a linked list which needs to be iterated over at boot-time.
>
> With a few changes to these macros, these linked lists could be turned into arrays,
> and thus remove the boot-time overhead.

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