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From: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 1/1] Track raid5/6 statistics.
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:45:03 -0500
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Hi Dan,

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:50:18PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

> I have done some work in this area too 

Got any preliminary patches you can share?

> and have a lingering desire to hook MD up to the tracing
> infrastructure du jour.  Have you considered using tracepoints [1]?
> This would save the overhead of atomic operations when we're not
> profiling.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that.

Cheers,
Jody

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> Regards,
> Dan
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> [1]: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/tracepoints.txt;h=5d354e16749447c667934ecd4c8f4fe5ee3da36c;hb=HEAD