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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	dev@codyps.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] perf: Add 'update' parameter to perf_event_read_value()
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:54:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150317065453.GM2896@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425458108-3341-4-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:35:07AM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:

>  extern u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event,
> -				 u64 *enabled, u64 *running);
> +				 u64 *enabled, u64 *running, int update);
>  

I think someone recently showed that bool generates better code in some
cases. The advantage of int is that you can stuff more bits in, but then
you need to call it flags or so anyhow.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-17  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-04  8:35 [PATCH 0/4] perf: Implement event group read using txn interface Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-03-04  8:35 ` [PATCH 1/4] perf: Add 'flags' parameter to pmu txn interfaces Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-03-17  6:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-26  4:00     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-03-04  8:35 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf: Split perf_event_read() and perf_event_count() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-03-04  8:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf: Add 'update' parameter to perf_event_read_value() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-03-17  6:54   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-03-04  8:35 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf/powerpc: Implement group_read() txn interface for 24x7 counters Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-03-17  6:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-26  5:57     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-04-01 18:10       ` Peter Zijlstra

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