Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:47:18 -0500 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: [ltt-dev] LTTng kernel integration roadmap, update |
| |
* Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 07:20:55AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > The key idea behind this is to answer to Thomas Gleixner concerns, who > > supports that a tracer should output data in text-format only so it can > > be used with tools kernel developers have on their system, like "cat". > > Last time I talked to Thomas and others it wasn't "text only" but text > also in that you can just cat a debugfs file for simple tracing. And I > totally agree with that. If you don't trace too much that's absolutely > enough. It's not enough for large traces on highly loaded enterprise > or high-end embedded systems or things like flight recorder tracing, but > for those requiring an external viewer is just fine. >
Ok, thanks for the clarification. This will be pretty much straightforward to implement.
Mathieu
> > _______________________________________________ > ltt-dev mailing list > ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca > http://lists.casi.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ltt-dev >
-- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68
| |