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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:05:54 +0530
From: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] Tracing framework for QEMU
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Ananth <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hi Stefan,

> Interesting to see your patches, tracepoint definitions/declarations
> look similar to in-kernel tracepoints :).

The choice of a kernel-tracepoint approach had advantages since it 
places no inherent limitation on maximum number of arguments that can be 
logged. Also, it is flexible enough to dump entire arrays if need be -- 
which is not as easily accomplished in the proposed approach as with 
kernel tracepoints.

-- 
Prerna Saxena

Linux Technology Centre,
IBM Systems and Technology Lab,
Bangalore, India