Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:12:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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       Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
       Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>, ltt-dev@shafik.org,
       Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108
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Hi,

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> i'm also looking at it this way too: you already seem to be quite 
> reluctant to add kprobes to your architecture today. How reluctant would 
> you be tomorrow if you had static tracepoints, which would remove a fair 
> chunk of incentive to implement kprobes?

If I see that whole teams spend years to implement efficient dynamic 
tracing, do you really think that your "incentive" makes any difference?

byem Roman
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