* Nils Carlson ([email protected]) wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been looking through the ust trace locking mechanism, > ltt_lock_traces, and am wondering: is there any real point to it? > Assuming only one single tracectl thread in the process the traces will > only ever be accessed or changed by that single thread. There is > therefore never a possibility of a lock contention, so why bother? > > Mathieu, do you have any insight?
If we ever move to a scheme where we have one thread that controls each trace session, we will need the mutex. Mathieu > > /Nils -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com _______________________________________________ ltt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.casi.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ltt-dev
