From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] trace: Add simple tracing support Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 16:58:08 -0500 Message-ID: <4BF701F0.9040006@codemonkey.ws> References: <1274434947-2863-1-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1274434947-2863-2-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4BF67E72.5040908@codemonkey.ws> <4BF68E9B.1020405@siemens.com> <4BF692A5.7080501@codemonkey.ws> <4BF6BA3D.9000200@siemens.com> <4BF6F5DF.2060703@codemonkey.ws> <4BF6FE1D.9020804@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Prerna Saxena , Stefan Hajnoczi , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f180.google.com ([209.85.211.180]:41539 "EHLO mail-yw0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753040Ab0EUV6N (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2010 17:58:13 -0400 Received: by ywh10 with SMTP id 10so863071ywh.1 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 14:58:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BF6FE1D.9020804@web.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/21/2010 04:41 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> I'm not opposed to using a framework, but I'd rather have an equivalent >> to kvm_stat tomorrow than wait 3 years for LTTng to not get merged. >> >> So let's have a dirt-simple tracing mechanism and focus on adding useful >> trace points. Then when we have a framework we can use, we can just >> convert the tracepoints to the new framework. >> > That could mean serializing the tracepoints to strings and dumping them > to our log file - no concerns. > Which I really don't mind. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Jan > >