On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:26:20 +0200 (CEST)
> Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > A single u64 does not take more storage space than this and it's a single
> > store.
>
> So to use rtc_tm_to_time64()? Is the work to do the calculations of the
> conversion faster than a bunch of stores that are going to be in hot
> cache?
Look at the call site. It has already the scalar nsec value and it does a
conversion to rtc time in order to trace it.
Ditto for the other tracepoints where the conversion from scalar nsec is
done in the tracepoint itself.
Thanks,
tglx
