* Ingo Molnar ([email protected]) wrote:
> so regarding the big picture we are largely on the same page in essence
> i think - sub-issues non-withstanding :-) As long as LTT comes with a
> facility that allows the painless moving of a static LTT markup to a
> SystemTap script, that would come quite a bit closer to being acceptable
> for upstream acceptance in my opinion.
>
> The curious bit is: why doesnt LTT integrate SystemTap yet? Is it the
> performance aspect?
Yes, for our needs, the performance impact of SystemTAP is too high. We are
totally open to integrate data coming from SystemTAP to our traces. Correct me
if I am wrong, but I think their project does an extensive use of strings in the
buffers. This is one, non compact, sub-optimal type, but it can do the job for
low rate events. I also makes classification and identification of the
information rather less straightforward. Plus, running a string format code in a
critical code path does not give the kind of performance I am looking for.
> Some of the extensive hooking you do in LTT could be
> aleviated to a great degree if you used dynamic probes. For example the
> syscall entry hackery in LTT looks truly scary.
Yes, agreed. The last time I checked, I thought about moving this tracing code
to the syscall_trace_entry/exit (used for security hooks and ptrace if I
remember well). I just didn't have the time to do it yet.
> I cannot understand that
> someone who does tracing doesnt see the fundamental strength of
> SystemTap - i think that in part must have lead to my mistake of
> assuming that you opposed SystemTap.
>
Can you find a way to instrument it dynamically without the breakpoint cost ?
System calls are a highly critical path both in a system and for tracing.
Mathieu
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