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Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 16:58:08 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] trace: Add simple tracing support
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 05/21/2010 04:41 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
>> I'm not opposed to using a framework, but I'd rather have an equivalent
>> to kvm_stat tomorrow than wait 3 years for LTTng to not get merged.
>>
>> So let's have a dirt-simple tracing mechanism and focus on adding useful
>> trace points.  Then when we have a framework we can use, we can just
>> convert the tracepoints to the new framework.
>>      
> That could mean serializing the tracepoints to strings and dumping them
> to our log file - no concerns.
>    

Which I really don't mind.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan
>
>