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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091111064027.GA11565@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091110223456.01ef355f@infradead.org>

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:34:56PM +0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:01:08 +0800
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Arjan,
> > 
> > > +	TP_printk("task=%i (%s) file=%s dev=%s",
> > > +		__entry->pid, __entry->comm, __entry->file,
> > > __entry->dev)
> > 
> > Maybe this is enough for POWERTOP, however for general use, the dirty
> > type(data/metadata) and inode number may be valuable to some users?
> 
> what can a user do with an inode number????

Hmm, maybe to tell one file from another in the trace stream :)
And maybe to compare it with other data sources, like "ls -i".

Thanks,
Fengguang

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26  5:53 [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-26  6:03 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-26  6:55   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-27 16:01 ` Jason Baron
2009-11-11  2:01 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-11-11  6:34   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11  6:40     ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2009-11-11  7:42     ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-11  7:45       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11  7:56         ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-11 11:15           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11 17:27         ` Kok, Auke
2009-11-11 18:29         ` Theodore Tso
2009-11-11 18:56           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-12  2:15           ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11 16:19       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11 23:10         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-11-11 23:37           ` Kok, Auke
2009-11-12  7:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-20 10:43               ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-11-20 10:51                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-20 14:45                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-20 16:05                   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-20 16:45                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11  2:33 ` Li Zefan
2009-11-15 19:00   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-16  0:56     ` Li Zefan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-26 20:56 Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-28 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-28 18:43   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-29  1:41     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-29  4:54       ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-29  5:15         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-29 14:21           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-11-29 14:41             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-11-29 16:31               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-11-30  0:37             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-29  3:53     ` Nick Piggin

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