linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository)

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Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:13:45 -0200
From:	"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@...hat.com>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	hch@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@...ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@...hat.com>,
	Philippe Elie <phil.el@...adoo.fr>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"William L. Irwin" <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <christoph@...eter.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository)

Em Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:35:15PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers escreveu:
> I see no good reason to have so many different adhoc instrumentation
> mechanisms for profiling (sched, vm, oprofile) and tracing (blktrace,
> suspend/resume tracing) all over the place. Merging them in a single
> directory seems like a good step towards a more generic
> instrumentation/profiling/tracing infrastructure.
> 
> Back to "profile" and "probes" directory names, they might be short, but
> they do not represent the whole markup-profiling-tracing trio,
> "profile" lacks the tracing part and "probe" lacks the markup part.

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- Arnaldo
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