Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108

Ingo Molnar
2006-09-14T11:36:10Z

* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> Following an advice Christoph gave me this summer, submitting a
> smaller, easier to review patch should make everybody happier. Here is
> a stripped down version of LTTng : I removed everything that would
> make the code review reluctant (especially kernel instrumentation and
> kernel state dump module). I plan to release this "core" version every
> few LTTng releases and post it to LKML.
>
> Comments and reviews are very welcome.

i have one very fundamental question: why should we do this
source-intrusive method of adding tracepoints instead of the dynamic,
unintrusive (and thus zero-overhead) KProbes+SystemTap method?

Ingo