Re: Multiple Tracers

Li Zefan
2009-04-09T03:11:51Z

>>> Tom Zanussi (Cc:-ed) recently converted the blktrace tracepoints to
>> I guess you mean Arnaldo <acme@redhat.com> ;)
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> Nope, Tom:
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> Message-Id: <1235725261.8512.89.camel@charm-linux>
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Ah, sorry for the mistake, I didn't notice that patch, and I thought
Ingo meant the ftrace-plugin patch.

>>> a tracing framework - and i think much of that could be reused to
>>> add EVENT_TRACE() tracepoints to blktrace too.
>>>
>>> Tom, what's your take on this?
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>>> In general, this is the direction we want to take: EVENT_TRACE()
>>> tracepoints that can be used in a generic way, in any tracer.
>>>
>> Actually we've planed to do this, and for other tracers.
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> Yeah, being able to mix all kinds of tracers is the way to go.
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