Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751089AbWINVHm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:07:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751107AbWINVHm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:07:42 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:53405 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751089AbWINVHl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:07:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:07:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Ingo Molnar cc: Martin Bligh , 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 , fche@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108 In-Reply-To: <20060914203430.GB9252@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20060914033826.GA2194@Krystal> <20060914112718.GA7065@elte.hu> <20060914135548.GA24393@elte.hu> <20060914171320.GB1105@elte.hu> <4509BAD4.8010206@mbligh.org> <20060914203430.GB9252@elte.hu> 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: 713 Lines: 19 Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > primarily because i fail to see any property of static tracers that are > not met by dynamic tracers. So to me dynamic tracers like SystemTap are > a superset of static tracers. You keep ignoring that a dynamic tracer is nontrivial... :-( A static tracer is easy to implement and sufficient for many uses and most important it doesn't prevent anyone from using a dynamic tracer. Having a choice is good! bye, Roman - 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/