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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] statistics: fix buffer overflow in histogram with linear scale
Date: 20 Oct 2006 17:15:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mpscmvgd3.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061020115242.ff4acce2.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> So...  what are we going to do with the statistics stuff?  It needs users
> to prove its desirability/suitability.  I think there was some work done in
> the SCSI area - did that come to anything?

There may be an opportunity here for combining this and the
markers-based lttng work.  Statistics gathering would be just one of
several possible back-end for events corresponding to scsi quantity
changes: tracing or more elaborate probing would also be enabled.

- FChE

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-20 13:58 Martin Peschke
2006-10-20 18:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-20 21:15   ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]

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