Re: [RFC PATCH] tracing: Don't call wakeup() when committing theevent

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 06:47:32PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 00:09 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if we should have a lite version of wake_up() that checks
> > if the list of waiters is empty before locking the queue.
> > After all we don't care much about tight races for tracing.
> 
> Since tracing is a special case here, we probably could get away to just
> do it ourselves. That is, have our own flag that determines if we should
> wakeup or not.

Yep, agreed.
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