linux-ext4 - Re: tracepoints in ext4 (and/or ext3?)

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Message-ID: <20080812163232.GC8857@mit.edu>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:32:32 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Jose R. Santos" <jrs@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tracepoints in ext4 (and/or ext3?)

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:19:54AM -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote:
> 
> Good idea, although Im not sure if ext[34] is the best place we should
> start putting markers though.

I can think of ext3/4 specific markers that would be useful for people
who are tuning our filesystems for performance.  This would include
when we start and end tranactions, when we force a checkpoint, when we
create and, extend, and finish using a handle in the jbd layer.

In the ext4 itself, knowing when we are mapping delayed allocations
would be useful, as well as when we freeze and unfreeze a filesystem
(i.e., for snapshots).

There are a lot of other tracepoints that probably do make more sense
to be put in the VFS layer, although on thing that would be *really*
nice is some semantic sugar in Systemtap or in a Systemtap tapset so
that we only trigger the tracepoints for a particular filesystem.

     	     	     	 	     	   - Ted
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