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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Unified trace buffer
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 13:38 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

>  It does not even implement the merge sort. That's up to the 
> tracer to handle. 

You could though, as you have the timestamps..

> So yes, the tracer can implement anything it wants on top of the ring 
> buffer ;-)

Mathieu seems to disagree, it would be good if he can share some
specifics so we can work on resolving those.