From: "Martin Bligh" <mbligh@google.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Mathieu Desnoyers" <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
od@novell.com, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Unified tracing buffer
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:47:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33307c790809222047h7eaae674r8dd165ab8744910a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wtjr0y1.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
>> During kernel summit and Plumbers conference, Linus and others
>> expressed a desire for a unified
>> tracing buffer system for multiple tracing applications (eg ftrace,
>> lttng, systemtap, blktrace, etc) to use.
>
> This is what relayfs always was promised to be, but apparently
> never quite became. But before adding a new one I would recommend
> to remove relayfs first.
It's a little different, though similar. relayfs is an unstructured buffer.
This would be a sequence of events with a common timestamp format,
and hopefully other commonalties too.
I agree that the underlying buffer structure could be shared, as has
been pointed out (buried in this long thread). However, in another buried
comment, it was pointed out that relayfs would have no users once this
was done, so ...
I don't think we can remove relayfs before adding this and switching over
the users though (possibly it could all be done at the same time, but messy)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-19 21:33 Martin Bligh
2008-09-19 21:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-19 21:57 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-19 22:41 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2008-09-19 22:19 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-20 8:10 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2008-09-20 8:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-20 11:40 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-20 8:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-20 11:44 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-19 22:28 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2008-09-19 22:09 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-19 23:18 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-09-20 8:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-20 13:37 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-20 13:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-20 14:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-22 18:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-22 21:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-23 3:27 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-20 0:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-22 14:07 ` K.Prasad
2008-09-22 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-22 16:29 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-22 16:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-22 20:50 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 3:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 2:49 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 5:25 ` Tom Zanussi
2008-09-23 9:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-23 18:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 18:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-23 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-23 13:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 14:00 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-23 17:55 ` K.Prasad
2008-09-23 18:27 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-24 3:50 ` Tom Zanussi
2008-09-24 5:42 ` K.Prasad
2008-09-25 6:07 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8] current relay cleanup patchset Tom Zanussi
2008-09-25 6:07 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] relay - Clean up relay_switch_subbuf() and make waking up consumers optional Tom Zanussi
2008-09-25 6:07 ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] relay - Make the relay sub-buffer switch code replaceable Tom Zanussi
2008-09-25 6:07 ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] relay - Add channel flags to relay, remove global callback param Tom Zanussi
2008-09-25 6:07 ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] relay - Add reserved param to switch-subbuf, in preparation for non-pad write/reserve Tom Zanussi
2008-09-25 6:07 ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] relay - Map the first sub-buffer at the end of the buffer, for temporary convenience Tom Zanussi
2008-09-25 6:07 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] relay - Replace relay_reserve/relay_write with non-padded versions Tom Zanussi
2008-09-25 6:07 ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] relay - Remove padding-related code from relay_read()/relay_splice_read() et al Tom Zanussi
2008-09-25 6:08 ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] relay - Clean up remaining padding-related junk Tom Zanussi
2008-09-23 5:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] relay - clean up subbuf switch Tom Zanussi
2008-09-23 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-23 5:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] relay - make subbuf switch replaceable Tom Zanussi
2008-09-23 20:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-23 5:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] relay - add channel flags Tom Zanussi
2008-09-23 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-24 3:57 ` Tom Zanussi
2008-09-20 0:26 ` Unified tracing buffer Marcel Holtmann
2008-09-20 9:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-20 13:55 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-20 14:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-22 18:52 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-10-02 15:28 ` Jason Baron
2008-10-03 16:11 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-10-03 18:37 ` Jason Baron
2008-10-03 19:10 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-10-03 19:25 ` Jason Baron
2008-10-03 19:56 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-10-03 20:25 ` Jason Baron
2008-10-03 21:52 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-09-22 3:09 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-09-22 9:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-23 2:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-22 13:57 ` K.Prasad
2008-09-22 19:45 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-22 20:13 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-22 22:25 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-22 23:11 ` Darren Hart
2008-09-23 0:04 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-22 23:16 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-23 0:05 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 0:12 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-23 14:49 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 15:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 15:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-23 17:04 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 17:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-23 18:59 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 19:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-23 19:38 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-23 19:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-23 19:50 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-23 20:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-23 21:02 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-23 20:03 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 20:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-23 15:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-23 0:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-23 1:26 ` Roland Dreier
2008-09-23 1:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-23 2:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 2:26 ` Darren Hart
2008-09-23 2:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 3:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-23 3:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 4:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-23 3:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-23 4:10 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 4:17 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-23 15:23 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 10:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-09-23 4:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-23 14:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 2:30 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-09-23 3:06 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 14:36 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-09-23 15:02 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-09-23 15:21 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-09-23 17:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-09-23 18:28 ` Martin Bligh
2008-09-23 3:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-23 3:47 ` Martin Bligh [this message]
2008-09-23 5:04 ` Andi Kleen
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