From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964978AbWA3UwS (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:52:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964979AbWA3UwR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:52:17 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:32901 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964978AbWA3UwR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:52:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:51:37 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com, prasanna@in.ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, systemtap@sources.redhat.com, jkenisto@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp, soshima@redhat.com, haoki@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][0/2] kprobe: kprobe-booster against 2.6.16-rc1 for i386 Message-Id: <20060130125137.509df714.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <43DE0A3A.4090404@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> References: <43DE0A3A.4090404@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > I would like to propose the kprobe-booster and kretprobe-booster > to reduce overhead of kprobes and kretprobes. > They have already been discussed on the SystemTap ML. Do you have performance testing results for this change?