Re: [PATCH 0/2] quickstats, kernel sample collector

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:10 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 06:30:25PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > This patchset introduces a small library to collect per-cpu samples and
> > accumulate distributions to be exported through debugfs.
>
> Shouldn't this be part of the tracing infrastructure instead of being
> "stand-alone"?

That's an option. My reasoning for making it standalone was that
there are no dependencies in the (trivial) collection/aggregation part,
so that code might conveniently replace/extend existing snippets of
code that collect distributions in ad-hoc and perhaps suboptimal ways.

cheers
luigi