Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core v9 4/6] locking/pvqspinlock: Collect slowpath lock statistics

From: Waiman Long
Date: Thu Nov 05 2015 - 12:35:05 EST


On 11/05/2015 12:09 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:59:21AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
Mostly I just wanted to point out that it was possible; you need not
change to sysfs because debugfs lacks the capability.

But now that you ask, I think debugfs might be the better place, such
statistics (and the proposed CONFIG symbol) are purely for debug
purposes, right?
Davidlohr had asked me to use per-cpu counters to reduce performance
overhead so that they can be usable in production system. That is another
reason why I move to sysfs.
Yes, the per-cpu thing certainly makes sense. But as said, that does not
require you to move to sysfs.

BTW, do you have comments on the other patches in the series? I would like
to collect all the comments before I renew the series.
I still have to look at the last two patches, I've sadly not had time
for that yet.

That is what I thought. Just let me know when you are done with the review, and I will update the patches and send out a new series.

Cheers,
Longman
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