Re: Merging relayfs?

From: Tomasz Kłoczko
Date: Tue Jul 12 2005 - 14:35:39 EST


On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote:
[..]
> This is much more simpler and much better for control (also from point of
> view caching bugs in agregator code -> also from point of view kernel
> stability).
>
> Also .. probably some code for handle i.e. counters cen be the same as
> existing code in current kernel.
> Probably some "atomic" (and/or simpler) agregators can be usefull in other
> places in kernel for collecting some data during all time when system
> works .. so code for handle this can be reused in non-ocasinal
> tracing/measuring.
> And again: all without things like relayfs.

Well, you should check out the sytemtap project. It's basically a
DTrace clone which is already doing these kinds of things with
kprobes, and it's using relayfs...

Probaly by this it will be harder to say "KProbes it is Solaris DTrace
clone".

kloczek
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