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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108
    Hi,

    On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:

    > i have one very fundamental question: why should we do this
    > source-intrusive method of adding tracepoints instead of the dynamic,
    > unintrusive (and thus zero-overhead) KProbes+SystemTap method?

    Could you define "zero-overhead"?
    Actual implementation aside having a core number of tracepoints is far
    more portable than KProbes.

    bye, Roman
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