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Date:   Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:18:48 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] sched: Force the address order of each sched
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On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:44:05 +0300
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> wrote:

> My opinion is to better make some less beautiful thing in a single synchronous place,
> than to distribute the redundancy over all the code (especially, when it is asynchronous).

I very much subscribe to this notion. The TRACE_EVENT() and NMI code
does the same. Keep all other use cases simple by making it complex in
one locality.

-- Steve