From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: tracepoints in ext4 (and/or ext3?)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:30:26 -0500
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Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:18:07PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> As just an initial inquiry, I'm wondering how people would feel about
>> putting some tracepoints (trace_mark()) into ext[34] for monitoring the
>> fs behavior.
> 
> I think it's a great idea!  Do you have some specific tracepoints in
> mind?

I'll start thinking of some ;)

tracepoints were a hot topic upstream it seemed, so I figured I'd make
sure people were amenable to instrumenting ext$X before I started in.

Thanks,
-Eric