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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>,
	Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"William L. Irwin" <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:40:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071029234012.GB19413@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710291619210.4821@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

* Christoph Lameter (clameter@sgi.com) wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> > vm/vmstat.c
> 
> The vm statistics are important for the operation of the VM. They are not 
> optional. So I do not think that they fall under the category of 
> instrumentation.

But I guess vm stats can be useful to others; a kernel tracer for
instance ?

Putting stuff in instrumentation/ by no way means that it becomes
optional for a subsystem, but merely that it could either export
information useful for kernel instrumentation or have some
infrastructure parts merged with others. 

Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-29 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-29 21:51 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-29 22:47 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-29 22:54   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-29 23:04     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-29 23:08       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-29 23:35         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-30  0:47           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-30  1:38             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-30  9:13           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2007-10-30 17:24         ` [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ? Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-30 17:49           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-30 17:50           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30 17:58             ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-30 18:56             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-30 19:25               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30 20:40                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31 15:48                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-10-31 16:29                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-31 19:05                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-10-31 19:49                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-31 16:36                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31 19:29                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-10-30 21:46               ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-29 23:20 ` [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository) Christoph Lameter
2007-10-29 23:40   ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2007-10-29 23:45     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-30  0:51     ` Jeff Garzik

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