From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50735) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5y5d-00039P-3w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:05:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5y1w-0006FX-Ew for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:02:13 -0400 Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:27698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5y1w-0006Bh-3x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:58:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4E7871CA.8080606@siemens.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:58:18 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1315561022-25386-1-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1315561022-25386-2-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4E786B74.7060704@siemens.com> <4E787071.4010209@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4E787071.4010209@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] trace: portable simple trace backend using glib List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" On 2011-09-20 12:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 09/20/2011 12:31 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Please avoid restrictive glib thread services. We have qemu_thread >> abstractions that allow central tuning (will be needed e.g. to adjust >> scheduling parameters). > > I think the rationale here was to allow tracing the qemu_thread > routines. For your application you can still use ust or systemtap backends. OK, if that's a chick-egg thing, this makes sense. Should be documented then (to avoid someone using this as a general example). Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux