On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:07:42 +0900
Byungchul Park <[email protected]> wrote:

 
> > >   /* Signal a overhead of time execution to the output */
> > >   if (flags & TRACE_GRAPH_PRINT_OVERHEAD) {
> > > -         /* Duration exceeded 100 msecs */
> > > +         /* Duration exceeded 100 usecs */
> > >           if (duration > 100000ULL)
> > >                   ret = trace_seq_puts(s, "! ");
> > > -         /* Duration exceeded 10 msecs */
> > > +         /* Duration exceeded 10 usecs */
> > >           else if (duration > 10000ULL)
> > 
> > I thought the duration was in usec, but it seems not, it's in nsec, hmm.
> > Then this exceeding 10/100 usec is not meaningful - what about increaing
> > numbers in the conditional so that it can match to the comment?  That
> > will eliminate the need of the patch 2.

No, please keep this to 10/100 usecs. I do analyze functions that take
that little of time.

> 
> The approach you suggested also looks good to me. But I just wonder if it
> would be ok even if it changes meaning of the marks, "!", "+", because the
> marks have used with the meaning of exceeding 10/100 usec until now.
> 
> Isn't there anything wrong with increasing numbers in the conditions? :)
> 
> > 
> > Also I think msecs_str in trace_print_graph_duration() should be renamed
> > to usecs_str.
> 
> I agree. It should be also renamed. Such words made me hard to understand
> the code correctly. :(
> 

Yeah, this code has been here forever. It came from the original
latency-tracer in the -rt patch. I was so use to calling 'msecs' as
microseconds in this code, that I didn't realize the problem ;-)

Anyway, feel free to resend this patch fixing the msecs_str.

Thanks!

-- Steve


> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Namhyung
> > 
> > 
> > >                   ret = trace_seq_puts(s, "+ ");
> > >   }
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