Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:00:02 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace' |
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:24 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > What about the filtering and other general features/functionality of > > > ftrace? Is the anticipation that this will be ported over to perf? > > > What about things like blktrace? > > > > Yeah, i'd love to see all that available. Filtering is available already on the > > kernel perf event side and could be added as an option. > > Except I utterly detest the existing filter code.. it runs _after_ we do all the > hard work and then makes us roll back when it decides we shouldn't output after > all. > > But yes, it is functional.
I suspect that is what matters mostly - unless you think that it's impossible to have a sane implementation of it, if the users come.
Thanks,
Ingo
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