Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759082AbXISLpa (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:45:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755368AbXISLpX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:45:23 -0400 Received: from tomts16.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.4]:46723 "EHLO tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755239AbXISLpW (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:45:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:45:18 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Boerner Subject: Re: [PATCH] Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation Message-ID: <20070919114516.GH15500@Krystal> References: <20070918211259.GA14927@Krystal> <14754.1190151939@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070919010627.GA24174@Krystal> <3956.1190181478@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070919112033.GF15500@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 07:38:34 up 51 days, 11:57, 4 users, load average: 2.03, 1.89, 1.60 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: 1576 Lines: 41 * Robert P. J. Day (rpjday@mindspring.com) wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > * Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote: > > > > Ahh, LTT. *that* I recognize. Yeah, I count that as *one flavor* > > > of instrumentation. :) > > mathieu clarified this in a previous email to me, but is LTT not > entirely superseded by LTT-ng? just curious. > Yes, LTTng supersedes LTT. It provides the ability to extract traces across execution layers (hypervisor, kernel, userspace) to perform performance analysis and debugging of applications at the system level. LTTng's approach differs from LTT in that it allows completely customizable instrumentation. We chose to provide that based on the previous LTT experience, where we have seen that adding instrumentation is very often required when digging deeply into a problem. Mathieu > rday > -- > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry > Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > http://crashcourse.ca > ======================================================================== -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP 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/