Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108 | From | Michel Dagenais <> | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:05:06 -0400 |
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> the question is: what is more maintainance, hundreds of static > tracepoints (with long parameter lists) all around the (core) kernel, or > hundreds of detached dynamic rules that need an update every now and > then? [but of which most would still be usable even if some of them > "broke"] To me the answer is clear: having hundreds of tracepoints > _within_ the source code is higher cost. But please prove me wrong :-)
Actually I rarely find that any of the 70 000 printk is such a huge nuisance to code readability. They may even help understand what is going on in a code area you are less familiar with.
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