Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751108AbWINTs7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:48:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751107AbWINTs7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:48:59 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:900 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751104AbWINTs6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:48:58 -0400 To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Tom Zanussi , ltt-dev@shafik.org, Michel Dagenais Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108 References: <20060914033826.GA2194@Krystal> <20060914112718.GA7065@elte.hu> <450971CB.6030601@mbligh.org> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: 14 Sep 2006 15:48:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <450971CB.6030601@mbligh.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.3 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: 1031 Lines: 20 "Martin J. Bligh" writes: > [...] What would be really nice is one trace infrastructure, that > allowed both static and dynamic tracepoints We in systemtap land hope to encounter *some* static tracepoint structure, perhaps like the one I presented at OLS, via which systemtap could become your unified static+dynamic "infrastructure". Even in that universe, using LTT-derived code for high-performance tracing is within the realm of reason. > without all the awk-style language crap that seems to come with > systemtap. I'm sorry to hear you dislike the scripting language. But that's okay, you Real Men can embed literal C code inside systemtap scripts to do the Real Work, and leave to systemtap only sundry duties such as probe placement and removal. - FChE - 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/