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SubjectRe: [RFC][PROTO][PATCH -tip 0/7] kprobes: support jump optimization on x86

* Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> wrote:

> Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:06:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>> I'm curious: what is the biggest kprobe count you've ever seen, in
> >>> the field? 1000? 10,000? 100,000? More?
> >> The limit is iirc how much memory the gcc compiling the probes program
> >> consumes before running out of swap space.
> >
> > On a machine with lots of free RAM, gcc will not hold itself back. On
> > my home server, a 40000-kprobe script compiled (pass 4) in about 4
> > seconds using about 200MB RAM.
>
> Hm, when 40,000 kprobes are optimized, it will consume less than
> 8MB ... I guess that is acceptable for recent machines.

That's more than acceptable, especially for some heavy
instrumentation.

So we can forget about this "uses more memory" downside. Performance
matters far more, and jprobes are fantastic in that regard.

Ingo


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