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