From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751083AbZH0F01 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:26:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750948AbZH0F01 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:26:27 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([93.163.65.50]:41451 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750915AbZH0F00 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:26:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:26:28 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ingo Molnar , rostedt@goodmis.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, acme@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: blktrace ftrace plugin, was Re: Receive side performance issue with multi-10-GigE and NUMA Message-ID: <20090827052628.GE12579@kernel.dk> References: <20090826181502.GC13632@elte.hu> <20090826190435.GC10816@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20090826190830.GF13632@elte.hu> <20090826.123631.79533250.davem@davemloft.net> <20090826194835.GA16508@elte.hu> <20090826202344.GE10816@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20090826204027.GA21159@elte.hu> <20090827003047.GA30341@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090827003047.GA30341@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 26 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:40:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > We are also converting non-trivial plugins to generic tracepoints. A > > recent example are the system call tracepoints, but we also > > converted blktrace and kmemtrace to generic tracepoints. > > On something semi-related: Any reason to keep the blktrace ftrace > plugin around? I don't think there's much point in it. It only got > added in 2.6.29, and all the blktrace tooling just uses the legacy > ioctls. All new uses should just use the TRACE_EVENT output. Lets kill it. -- Jens Axboe