linux-kernel - Re: GFS2: Add blktrace support to glocks

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Message-ID: <20090219185919.GB28490@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:59:19 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Cc:	cluster-devel@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-btrace@...r.kernel.org, axboe@...nel.dk
Subject: Re: GFS2: Add blktrace support to glocks

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:55:39PM +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since I last posted this pair of patches, I've done some extensive
> updating of the kernel patch, so it should now be happy to compile
> under all possible Kconfigs (fingers crossed) and also its a fair
> bit cleaner too.
> 
> I'm adding the linux-btrace list, since I didn't know about that
> list when I made the initial posting.
> 
> Since there is probably more GFS2 changes than blktrace changes, I
> could push this through the GFS2 tree. Let me know if you'd prefer
> it to go via the blktrace tree. I'd like to be able to push this
> in at the next merge window if possible. This patch is against the
> head of the GFS2 -nmw git tree (obviously that makes no difference
> to the blktrace side of the patch).
> 
> An updated blktrace userland patch follows in the next email, although
> the changes from the last version are fairly minor,

Umm, why would you put fs internal stuff into blktrace?  Just use
the generic ringbuffer directly and trace into that one.

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