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

Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-09-15T20:00:13Z

* Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> Of course, it they are properly designed, the one set of tracepoints could
> be used by different tracing backends - that allows us to separate the
> concepts of "tracepoints" and "tracing backends".

If I try to develop your idea a little further, we could this of dividing the
tracing problem into four layers :

- tracepoints (where the code is instrumented)
- identifying code
- accessing data surrounding the code
- tracing backend (how to add the tracepoints)
- tracing infrastructure (what code will serialize the information)
- data extraction (getting the data out to disk, network, ...)

I think that, if we agree on this segmentation of the problem, this thread is
generally debating on the tracing backends and their respective limitations.
I just want to point out that the patch I have submitted adresses mainly the
"tracing infrastructure" and "data extraction" topics.

Regards,

Mathieu

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