From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758271AbXGCSCM (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:02:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755807AbXGCSB6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:01:58 -0400 Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.74]:61835 "EHLO tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755665AbXGCSB5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:01:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:01:55 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] Linux Kernel Markers Message-ID: <20070703180155.GA3057@Krystal> References: <20070703170843.204442953@polymtl.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070703170843.204442953@polymtl.ca> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 14:01:10 up 2 days, 12:44, 3 users, load average: 0.70, 0.31, 0.27 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Please note that this release will apply on 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 and depends on the immediate values patch. * Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca) wrote: > Hi, > > This updated version of the Linux Kernel Markers mostly adds a unique 16 bits > per marker ID and a per-probe marker group. > > Christoph, I think the only concern that I do not plan to address immediately is > to provide a complet in-kernel user of the markers (blktrace patch does not > actually use the markers full potential). I have external patches that provides > that, but I don't want to send too much patches at once. Between providing a > complete marker/tracer stack and sending small incremental patches, I think the > latter is the choice the better suited. This is however an uneasy problem, which > looks very much like the chicken and egg problem. :) > > If you have concerns with what I recently added to the markers, or if you still > strongly feel that I must also send the following patches right away, please let > me know. > > Mathieu > > -- > Mathieu Desnoyers > Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal > OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68