Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:33:05 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] time: alarmtimer: Add the trcepoints for alarmtimer |
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:26:20 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > As suggested by Steven, change the type of RTC value to save trace buffer.
The original code did everything just like the above but stored every value into ints, I just said that the value could be stored in chars to save space.
> > A single u64 does not take more storage space than this and it's a single > store.
So to use rtc_tm_to_time64()? Is the work to do the calculations of the conversion faster than a bunch of stores that are going to be in hot cache?
-- Steve
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