* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:31:52PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > PeterZ,
> > 
> >     Can I have your Acked-by for this one? I guess now the goal is
> > achieved, no?
> 
> So this option allows -t/-p/-u to create one buffer per cpu and attach
> all the various thread/process/user tasks' their counters to that one
> buffer?
> 
> As opposed to the current state where each such counter would have its
> own buffer.
> 
> If this is what the patch does, then yes, although I would prefer a
> slightly clearer Changelog.
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>

Is there any reason why we wouldn't want to make this the default 
behavior?

That way we could also lose the somewhat suboptimal 'force' naming: 
there's nothing forced really, we simply switch to another ring-buffer 
setup ...

Thanks,

        Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to