Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:25:30 +0100 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/Requirements/Design] h/w error reporting |
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:52:40AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 16:30 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > As for the buffer, I prefer a u64 aligned data stream, but the very > > least I need is frame encapsulation. What I don't want _ever_ is stupid > > sub-buffers. And no they're not needed, see the discussion about sync > > markers a while back. > > BTW, the sub buffers is just an implementation detail. I suspect that > we'll have to end up with something that splits the buffer up. Whether > we have 'markers' or something else. They all break down the buffer into > a "sub-buffer".
If the size of the sub-buffers are tunable (all the same size inside a whole buffer, but that size is tunable), then someone who doesn't want to use subbuffers can just use a single big subbuffer :)
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