Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:23:00 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] ring_buffer: updates for linux-tip |
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* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/1 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>: > > The first patch is just a lockdep clean up of the ring buffer. > > > > The next patch is a new locking design. It is not lockless (yet) but > > the locking is a bit cleaner than the original. The basic idea is > > that the reader now has its own page to read from that is not in > > the ring buffer. When the reader (a consumer) finishes a page, it > > then grabs a lock to pull out a new page from the ring buffer and > > replace it with the one that it just finished reading. > > Good idea! Sounds a real saner approach.
are the tracer problems you've reported yesterday fixed in latest tip/master?
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