Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:55:36 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] sched, tracing: report task state in symbolic chars instead |
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:16:03 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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
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