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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] perf/core: expose thread context switch out event type to user space
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:05:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180323180534.GD4043@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <713750a0-7cc1-0a27-7253-12ff4f3c9a8d@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 07:08:25PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> 
> Implementation of exposing context-switch-out type event as a part 
> of PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE] record.
> 
> Introduced types of events assumed to be:
> a) preempt: when task->state == TASK_RUNNING
> b) yield: !preempt, encoding is done using new bit 
>    PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_YIELD like this:

A !preempt context switch isn't nessecarily a yield; please don't use
that name, it means something quite specific and this isn't it.

Specifically, on Linux yield() doesn't actually change task->state, so
when task->state is set !0 it _cannot_ have been yield.

I would invert the thing and call the preempt one SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-23 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-22 16:08 [PATCH v2 0/3] perf/core: expose thread context switch out event type to user space Alexey Budankov
2018-03-22 16:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] perf/core: store context switch out type into Perf trace Alexey Budankov
2018-03-22 16:13 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] perf report: extend raw dump (-D) out with switch out event type Alexey Budankov
2018-03-22 16:16 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] perf script: extend misc field decoding " Alexey Budankov
2018-03-23  9:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] perf/core: expose thread context switch out event type to user space Jiri Olsa
2018-03-23 18:05 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-03-23 20:38   ` Alexey Budankov

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