linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 00/41] LTTng 0.105 core for Linux 2.6.27-rc9

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Message-ID: <20090314164358.GB31930@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:43:58 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	ltt-dev@...ts.casi.polymtl.ca,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>,
	mrubin@...gle.com, md@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 00/41] LTTng 0.105 core for Linux 2.6.27-rc9


* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca> wrote:

> * Ingo Molnar (mingo@...e.hu) wrote:
> > 
> > * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Let me give you a few examples of existing areas of overlap:
> > > > 
> > > > > The corresponding git tree contains also the trace clock 
> > > > > patches and the lttng instrumentation. The trace clock is 
> > > > > required to use the tracer, but it can be used without the 
> > > > > instrumentation : there is already a kprobes and userspace 
> > > > > event support included in this patchset.
> > > > 
> > > > The latest tracing tree includes 
> > > > kernel/tracing/trace_clock.c which offers three trace clock 
> > > > variants, with different performance/precision tradeoffs:
> > > > 
> > > >  trace_clock_local()   [ for pure CPU-local tracers with no idle 
> > > >                          events. This is the fastest but least 
> > > >                          coherent tracing clock. ]
> > > > 
> > > >  trace_clock()         [ intermediate, scalable clock with
> > > >                          usable but imprecise global coherency. ]
> > > > 
> > > >  trace_clock_global()  [ globally serialized, coherent clock. 
> > > >                          It is the slowest but most accurate variant. ]
> > > > 
> > > > Tracing plugins can pick their choice. (This is relatively new 
> > > > code but you get the idea.)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hehe this reminds me of the trace clock thread I started a few 
> > > months ago on LKML. So you guys took over that work ? Nice :) 
> > > Is it based on the trace-clock patches I proposed back then ? 
> > > Ah, no. Well I guess we'll have to discuss this too. I agree 
> > > on the trace_clock_local/trace_clock/trace_clock_global 
> > > interface, it looks nice. The underlying implementation will 
> > > have to be discussed though.
> > 
> > Beware: i found the assembly trace_clock() stuff you did back 
> > then rather ugly ;-) I dont think there's any easy solutions 
> > here, so i went for this palette of clocks.
> > 
> 
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> I agree for the palette of clocks to fit all needs. I wonder 
> what exactly you found ugly in the approach I took with my 
> trace_clock() implementation ? Maybe you could refresh my 
> memory, I do not recall writing any part of it in assembly.. ? 
> But this is a whole different topic. We can discuss this 
> later.

hm, it was months ago. Ok, it must have been this one:

 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/7/21
 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/7/23

indeed no assembly but almost ;-) What i found rather ugly were 
the cnt32_to_63() complications.

	Ingo
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