| From: |
| Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
| To: |
| linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH 0/4] [GIT PULL] memory saving ring buffer for tip/tracing/ftrace |
| Date: |
| Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:37:20 -0400 |
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| <20090312023720.144716747@goodmis.org> |
| Cc: |
| Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>, Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> |
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Ingo,
This patch series implements a better memory management by the
ring buffer. It only allocates the buffers for the online CPUS, as well
as keeps the buffers to a minimum size until they are used.
Please pull the latest tip/tracing/ftrace tree, which can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
tip/tracing/ftrace
Steven Rostedt (4):
tracing: keep ring buffer to minimum size till used
tracing: expand the ring buffers when an event is activated
tracing: fix trace_wait to know to wait on all cpus or just one
ring-buffer: only allocate buffers for online cpus
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kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 266 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
kernel/trace/trace.c | 118 +++++++++++++++----
kernel/trace/trace.h | 3 +
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 8 ++
4 files changed, 319 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
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