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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:52:40AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Also, lets not focus now on implementation. Let's try to concentrate on
> what we want the tools to be able to do.
> 
> For example, I would like:
> 
> Very small entries, and pick and chose what I want in my entries.
> 
> A way to read it fast to a file or over the network (splice).
> 
> The read backwards seems like a cool idea, but I would not want to throw
> away the read forwards part either.

It would also be cool to be able to allocate those buffers as early as
possible, even if before MCA is enabled, so that I won't have to copy
MCE data which got logged before the tracing subsystem got enabled to
the buffers proper.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.