Hi Eric,
On Thursday 16 February 2017 04:55 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
+/* + * The maximum size of the name of each namespace + */ +#define NS_NAME_SIZE 8 + +struct perf_ns_link_info { + char name[NS_NAME_SIZE]; + __u64 dev; + __u64 ino; +};Ugh. I missed the name the first time around. That really looks like useless clutter. You already know the index so the name doesn't add any information, so unless I am missing something that name will just slow down the perf kernel implementation with useless work. The userspace reader can have the information just as reliably by looking at the index and indexing into a table. The set of namespaces changes slowly enough that this is not likely to be a problem in practice. Especially as perf is released with the kernel. Plus who knows how long the name of the next namespace is going to be.
Agreed. Will drop name field from the structure and use an indexing table to get names in userspace.. Thanks Hari
