linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] BLOG: per-task logging contexts with Ceph consumer

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Message-ID: <20251024135301.0ed4b57d@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:53:01 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Alex Markuze <amarkuze@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] BLOG: per-task logging contexts with Ceph
 consumer

On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:42:54 +0000
Alex Markuze <amarkuze@...hat.com> wrote:

> Motivation: improve observability in production by providing subsystemsawith 
> a logger that keeps up with their verbouse unstructured logs and aggregating
> logs at the process context level, akin to userspace TLS. 
> 

I still don't understand the motivation behind this.

What exactly is this doing that the current tracing infrastructure can't do?

-- Steve