Re: [PATCH 6/9] tracing: Convert some block events to DEFINE_EVENT

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 26 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Nov 26 2009, Li Zefan wrote:
> > > > use TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE to remove duplicate code:
> > > > 
> > > >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > > >   53570    3284     184   57038    dece block/blk-core.o.old
> > > >   43702    3284     144   47130    b81a block/blk-core.o
> > > 
> > > Nice! When I played with the writeback tracing, I did notice that code
> > > bloat does get pretty severe quickly.
> > > 
> > > I have applied this to for-2.6.33, thanks a lot.
> > 
> > Note that it wont build in your tree, because the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE / 
> > DEFINE_EVENT facility this relies on is not upstream yet.
> > 
> > The events are not affected in any way (and block/* is not modified) - 
> > it's just a more efficient representation of the same. I've applied them 
> > to -tip, to keep the facility and dependent updates in a single place.
> 
> OK, lets merge them through -tip then. You can add my acked-by.

Thanks Jens!

Do you have any pending (or planned) changes to 
include/trace/events/block.h in the block tree that might cause 
problems?

We can pick those up too (and resolve any conflicts) to reduce the 
surface of friction.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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