Re: [RFC] btf: Some structs are doubled because of struct ring_buffer

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:36:46 +0100
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Thinking about this, perhaps we should remove the word "ring" from
> > both. That is:
> > 
> >   perf_buffer and trace_buffer ?  
> 
> sounds good to me.. and too good to be true ;-)
> please let me know if I should send the perf change

Note, changing the other one is a lot more invasive. It's not as easy
as I thought. I forgot that even blktrace uses it. And a lot of the
trace event code is tied to the ring buffer code, as well as every
tracer.

-- Steve