From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] xenalyze: add to tools/xentrace/xenalyze Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 09:45:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1431420319.8263.81.camel@citrix.com> References: <1430994944-20471-1-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <1430994944-20471-2-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <20150511141515.GA14629@aepfle.de> <1431354212.8263.65.camel@citrix.com> <5550BDA7.7020008@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5550BDA7.7020008@eu.citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap Cc: Ian Jackson , Olaf Hering , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 15:33 +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > On 05/11/2015 03:23 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 16:15 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > >> On Thu, May 07, George Dunlap wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Olaf Hering wrote: > >> > >>>> tools/xentrace/xenalyze/Makefile | 21 + > >> > >>> I personally think it would make more sense to just put the xenalyze > >>> directory in tools/. > > > > What (if anything) is the relationship between xentrace and xenalyze? > > > > I think the latter post processes the result of the former, is that > > right? > > Yes. So someone might argue that, both having to do with the xen > tracing system, they should live in the same directory; that's where > xentrace_format lives, after all. > > However, all xentrace does is basically map the hypervisor buffers and > dump them to disk. Other than that, there is no functional overlap > between them. > > It looks like olaf is only checking in the core xenalyze binary, not the > other side bits (like the html documentation), so keeping them in the > same directory might make sense. You mean to put xenalyze directly into xentrace (i.e. merging it with the current contents)? > > -George