Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:28:17 -0700 | From | "Martin Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Unified tracing buffer |
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>> I think the main reason of using single-channel mode is simplicity of >> userspace reader. We can use 'cat' or 'tail' to read the buffer on-line. >> I'm not sure how much overhead ftrace-like buffer merging routine has, >> but if kernel provides an interface which gives us single-merged buffer >> image(like ftrace buffer), we are grad to use it. :-) > > Yup, I also think it is better.
That was the plan, yes. Merge sort is cheap ;-)
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