Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751436AbWIOBr2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:47:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751440AbWIOBr2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:47:28 -0400 Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25]:58537 "EHLO tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751436AbWIOBr1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:47:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:47:26 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Roman Zippel , 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 Message-ID: <20060915014726.GD23664@Krystal> References: <20060914033826.GA2194@Krystal> <20060914112718.GA7065@elte.hu> <20060914135548.GA24393@elte.hu> <20060914171320.GB1105@elte.hu> <20060914181557.GA22469@elte.hu> <20060914202452.GA9252@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060914202452.GA9252@elte.hu> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.4.32-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 21:42:17 up 22 days, 22:51, 4 users, load average: 0.67, 0.38, 0.20 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 29 * Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote: > > * Roman Zippel wrote: > > > > > > also, the other disadvantages i listed very much count too. Static > > > > > tracepoints are fundamentally limited because: > > > > > [...] > Right now they are > pretty heavy cons as far as LTT goes, so obviously they have a primary > impact on the topic at hand (whic is whether to merge LTT or not). > Ingo, why are you arguing about static instrumentation when I don't submit any static instrumentation in my patch ? You can argue about static VS dynamic instrumentation all you want, but please don't apply this debate to a dicision about including or not a core tracing infrastructure that has nothing to do with the way instrumentation or probes are inserted. Mathieu OpenPGP public key: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080/key/compudj.gpg Key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - 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/