Re: [PATCH RFC V2 07/10] perf tools: change machine comm_exec type to atomic

[Jiri Olsa]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 08:05:11PM +0000, Liang, Kan wrote:
> > Em Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:23:20PM -0700, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx escreveu:
> > > From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > In case there are two or more threads want to change it.
> > 
> > Please describe the scenario that made you want to have this in place, to
> > help in reviewing and to have it documented in this patch commit log.
> > 
> 
> Thinking more about it. For synthesizing event, we don't need to change the
> comm_exec. PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC is not set in this stage.
> But we should consider it if  we want to multithread the event processing stage.
> 
> Since it's not an issue for now, I will drop this patch and add some comments
> in the code for V3.

any chance you could push v3 into a git branch somewhere?

thanks,
jirka