Re: [PATCH v3] lockdep: Allow tuning tracing capacity constants.

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Wed Nov 18 2020 - 09:30:29 EST


The problem is that we can't know what exactly is consuming these resources.
My question is do you have a plan to make it possible to know what exactly is
consuming these resources.

On 2020/11/18 23:23, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:57:08PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>> Peter, do you have a plan to make this problem actionable?
>
> I don't even know what the problem is.. nor do you. You can keep sending
> this bad paper-over-issues patch until you're blue in the face, I'll not
> take it for reasons I've explained before.
>
> I've also previously said that the right way to go about this is to
> figure out what exactly is consuming these resources and then figure out
> how to cure _that_. Blindly increasing the number only enables bad
> actors to get away with being bad.
>