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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)
On 01/18/2010 02:57 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 01/18/2010 02:51 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>> And how many probes do we expected to be live at the same time in
>>> real-world scenarios? I guess Avi's "one million" is more than enough?
>
> Avi Kivity kirjoitti:
>> I don't think a user will ever come close to a million, but we can
>> expect some inflation from inlined functions (I don't know if uprobes
>> replicates such probes, but if it doesn't, it should).
>
> Right. I guess we're looking at few megabytes of the address space for
> normal scenarios which doesn't seem too excessive.
>
> However, as Peter pointed out, the bigger problem is that now we're
> opening the door for other features to steal chunks of the address
> space. And I think it's a legitimate worry that it's going to cause
> problems for 32-bit in the future.
>
> I don't like the idea but if the performance benefits are real (are
> they?), maybe it's a worthwhile trade-off. Dunno.

If uprobes can trace to buffer memory in the process address space, I
think the win can be dramatic. Incidentally it will require injecting
even more vmas into a process.

Basically it means very low cost tracing, like the kernel tracers.

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