From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] KMON - kmon device/instrumentation ...
Date: 10 May 2007 15:23:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73k5vgg6c9.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <send-serie.davidel@xmailserver.org.27461.1178495355.1>
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:
> This patch serie introduces a way to log high frequency/volume data
> out of the kernel. Logging scheduler operations for example, with
> loads that generate tenths of thousands of context switches per second
> (possibly from multiple CPUs), can overload the kernel printk. Also,
> logging in binary form helps in reducing the size of the logged data
> that is tranfered from kernel to userspace. The kmon logger uses per
> CPU buffers (rings) that are flushed at a given frequency to all the
> instances of the kmon devices.
Sounds like you reinvented relayfs? (and ktrace before that)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-06 23:49 [patch 1/4] KMON - kmon device/instrumentation Davide Libenzi
2007-05-10 13:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-05-10 15:22 ` Davide Libenzi
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