Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030352AbWCULmP (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:42:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030358AbWCULmP (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:42:15 -0500 Received: from mtagate2.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.135]:11609 "EHLO mtagate2.uk.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030352AbWCULmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:42:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060321111452.GA5460@infradead.org> Subject: Re: [2/3 PATCH] Kprobes: User space probes support- readpage hooks Sensitivity: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: ak@suse.de, Andrew Morton , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, prasanna@in.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.1IBM February 19, 2004 Message-ID: From: Richard J Moore Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:38:11 +0000 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D06ML065/06/M/IBM(Release 6.53HF247 | January 6, 2005) at 21/03/2006 11:42:34 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 819 Lines: 28 Christoph Hellwig wrote on 21/03/2006 11:14:52: > > A real life example of where this capability would have been very useful is > > with a performance problem I am currently investigating. It involves a GPFS > > + SAMBA + TCPIP + RDAC > > this pobablt tells more about the crappy code quality of your propritary > code than a real need for this. please argue without reference to huge > blobs of junk. > Damn! I knew there was an obvious answer. Thanks Christoph, I'll code a fix over lunch. Your insight is as always most refreshing. Richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/