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From: "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@redhat.com>
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Em Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:35:15PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers escreveu:
> I see no good reason to have so many different adhoc instrumentation
> mechanisms for profiling (sched, vm, oprofile) and tracing (blktrace,
> suspend/resume tracing) all over the place. Merging them in a single
> directory seems like a good step towards a more generic
> instrumentation/profiling/tracing infrastructure.
> 
> Back to "profile" and "probes" directory names, they might be short, but
> they do not represent the whole markup-profiling-tracing trio,
> "profile" lacks the tracing part and "probe" lacks the markup part.

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- Arnaldo
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