From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754749AbZBVQEU (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:04:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751191AbZBVQEK (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:04:10 -0500 Received: from tomts20.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.74]:51374 "EHLO tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751104AbZBVQEJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:04:09 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuEEAJsEoUlMQWXi/2dsb2JhbACBbtMPhA8G Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:04:06 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Ingo Molnar , Randy Dunlap , Frederic Weisbecker , Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, "Frank Ch. Eigler" Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/markers: make markers select tracepoints Message-ID: <20090222160405.GA17875@Krystal> References: <499EE162.4050008@oracle.com> <20090220172241.GF24538@elte.hu> <20090222121821.3599.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <1235302660.4632.4.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1235302660.4632.4.camel@laptop> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 11:01:31 up 1 day, 7:35, 2 users, load average: 0.74, 0.66, 0.70 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Peter Zijlstra (peterz@infradead.org) wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 12:23 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > IIRC, this suggestion still don't get agreement of all tracing feature stakeholder. > > We need to definitely discuss more lot and deep. > > so I wonder why don't we create linux-tracing new mailing list. > > Yes, lets hide it from general view, sounds like a brilliant plan. > > > I guess Kosaki's point is that there may be a disconnect between the work that is done on the LTTng side and the ftrace side. LTTng uses the markers as a core infrastructure part (and tracepoints for instrumentation). I guess his idea is to improve communication, not to stop it. So by your reaction, I guess his proposal might not be ideal, but I hear his concerns. I'll try to post the core lttng patchset shortly. Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68