On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 09:46:12PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote: > Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Probably, at some point we can start exposing knobs, but I'd rather > > see a bit more discussions on how to provide a good autotuning. By > > exposing all knobs, then such discussion might not ever happen? > > My remarks were not aimed at exposing knobs but to provide some > debugging aid. > > Say e.g. there is a bug in the avx implementation that isn't present > in the C version, or vice versa. Or in rhashtable but not hashtable. Ah indeed, thanks for explaining. > Right now it requires some guesswork to figure out what set backend is > actually used for @myset, and it might make things easier for debugging > if one could query the kernel for some information wrt. what set backend > is used. I would try to avoid to expose anything that can't be ripped > out again, so e.g. names or even just %pF of ->lookup() would perhaps be > enough. I think exposing names would be fine. Probably you can also add name to operations, instead of %pF of lookup. Thanks.
