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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>,
	to@dvomlehn-lnx2.corp.sa.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Infrastructure for compact call location representation
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:44:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100609084417.GW26335@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100608084456.4da00349@nehalam>

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 08:44:56AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:30:52 -0700
> David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com> wrote:
> > History
> > v2	Support small callsite IDs and split out out-of-band parameter
> > 	parsing.
> > V1	Initial release
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
> 
> This is really Linux Kernel Mailing List material (not just netdev). And it will
> be a hard sell to get it accepted, because it is basically an alternative call
> tracing mechanism, and there are already several of these in use or under development
> (see perf and ftrace).

What about a generic extension or layer on top of stacktrace that
does caching and unique IDs for stack traces. This way you can get
callsites or _full_ stack traces if required, and it shouldn't require
any extra magic in the net functions.

You would need a hash for stack traces to check for an existing trace,
and an idr to assign ids to traces.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08  0:30 [PATCH][RFC] Infrastructure for compact call location representation David VomLehn
2010-06-08 15:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-08 18:59   ` David VomLehn
2010-06-08 15:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-08 19:06   ` David VomLehn
2010-06-09  8:44   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-06-09 18:22     ` David VomLehn
2010-06-10  8:47       ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-09  7:17 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-09 18:13   ` David VomLehn

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