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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, mbligh@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (updated)
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:15:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mve7ez2y3.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071130191006.GB3955@Krystal> (Mathieu Desnoyers's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:10:06 -0500")

Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> writes:

> [...]
>> > We would like to be able to tell which swap file the information has
>> > been written to/read from at any given time during the trace.
>> 
>> Oh, tracing is expected to be on at all times?  I figured someone would
>> encounter a problem, then turn it on to dig down a little deeper, then
>> turn it off.
>
> Yep, it can be expected to be on at all times, especially on production
> systems using "flight recorder" tracing to record information in a
> circular buffer [...]

Considering how early in the boot sequence swap partitions are
activated, it seems optimistic to assume that the monitoring equipment
will always start up in time to catch the initial swapons.  It would
be more useful if a marker parameter was included in the swap events
to let a tool/user map to /proc/swaps or a file name.

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-04 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13 19:33 [RFC 0/7] LTTng Kernel Instrumentation (Architecture Independent) Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 1/7] Include marker.h in kernel.h -- temporary, for code readability Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 2/7] LTTng instrumentation fs Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 3/7] LTTng instrumentation ipc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 4/7] LTTng instrumentation kernel Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-15 23:30   ` Mike Mason
2007-11-15 23:54     ` Mike Mason
2007-11-16  2:42       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-16  2:22     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 5/7] LTTng instrumentation mm Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-15 21:06   ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-15 21:51     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-15 22:16       ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-16 14:30         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 18:04           ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-28 14:09             ` [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (using page_to_pfn) Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-28 16:54               ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-29  2:34                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-29  6:25                   ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-30 16:11                     ` [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (updated) Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-30 17:46                       ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-30 17:05                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-30 18:42                           ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-30 19:10                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-04 19:15                               ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2007-12-04 19:25                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-04 19:40                                   ` Dave Hansen
2007-12-04 20:05                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-12-04 20:24                                       ` Dave Hansen
2007-12-04 20:28                                       ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-16 14:47         ` [RFC 5/7] LTTng instrumentation mm Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 18:07           ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 18:52             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 19:00               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 19:43                 ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 19:43               ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 19:52                 ` [PATCH] Cast __page_to_pfn to unsigned long in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 20:09                   ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 20:20                     ` [PATCH] Cast page_to_pfn " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-19 21:08                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-19 21:19                         ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-19 21:26                           ` Dave Hansen
2007-11-21 20:12                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-20 17:34                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 6/7] LTTng instrumentation net Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 19:33 ` [RFC 7/7] Add Markers Into Semaphore Primitives Mathieu Desnoyers

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