Re: [PATCH V7 0/9] osnoise: Support multiple instances (for RTLA)

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Oct 28 2021 - 22:41:46 EST


On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 23:29:28 +0200
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently, osnoise and timerlat run only on a single instance only. To lift
> this limitation, this series adds support for parallel instances of the
> same tracer. For example, making it possible to run one osnoise instance
> for the tracer output and another for a set of tracepoints.
>
> This patchset is the kernel dependencies for RTLA. It was
> being sent along with RTLA [1], but we split the kernel and
> user-space patch sets.
>
> Steve, feel free to drop the last two if they break anything.
>
> [1] RTLA: An interface for osnoise/timerlat tracers:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1635284863.git.bristot@xxxxxxxxxx/
>

Much better.

The only thing I would recommend now, is to write selftests to test
both osnoise and timerlat tracers. Note, this should be a separate
patch set.

-- Steve