From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:47:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120130014703.GG17211@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F25F5F3.6060507@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:44:19AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> The userland tool cannot distinguish bounced bio from original one
> at completion TP, but it can expect there will be a duplicated
> BLK_TA_COMPLETE as it sees BLK_TA_BOUNCE for the bio before.
>
> Filtering it out from kernel side seems to hide a real information
> that (paranoid?) user might want to get, and it looks like providing
> "polcy not mechanism" IMHO. That's why I changed my mind finally.
>
> I cannot think of the downside, anyway it's not a big deal, if you
> think it's wrong choice, I'm OK to change it again.
It's just that this patch as it stands will break the existing tools
and is likely to cause some amount of head scratching for blktrace
users upgrading to new kernel with existing userland, so yeah, I think
it should be filtered in kernel from blktrace.c.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 1:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 9:41 [PATCH] block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint Namhyung Kim
2012-01-29 19:24 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-30 1:44 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-01-30 1:47 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-01-30 2:22 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-01-30 2:30 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-30 2:49 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-01-30 2:53 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-30 5:51 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-01-30 5:54 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-30 6:02 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-01-30 6:38 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-01-30 17:05 ` Tejun Heo
2012-01-31 6:30 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-01-31 10:39 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-01 2:18 ` Namhyung Kim
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