Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] perf/core: Split up pinned and non pinnedprocessing

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 10 2009 - 00:12:13 EST



* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Split up pinned and non-pinned events processing in two helpers
> so that it's more flexible to handle them seperately.

> +static void
> +__perf_event_sched_in_volatile(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
> + struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx, int cpu)

Small naming suggestion: 'volatile' is a C keyword and rarely used
outside of that context in the kernel, which makes this function name a
bit confusing.

So instead of pinned/volatile, a pinned/flexible naming would be more
readable, i.e. __perf_event_sched_in_flexible() or so.

Also, most of the static functions in kernel/perf_event.c could lose
their perf_event_ prefix - we already know it's a perf thing, right?
That will shorten quite a few function names there.

These functions would turn into __sched_in_pinned()/__sched_in_flexible().

Agreed?

Ingo
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