Re: Merging relayfs?

[Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek@rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl>]

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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