Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

[Prasanna S Panchamukhi]

Hi Karim,

> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> It's not only me, who needs constant time. Everybody interested in
>> tracing will need that. In my opinion its a principle of tracing.
> 
> relayfs is a generalized buffering mechanism. Tracing is one application
> it serves. Check out the web site: "high-speed data-relay filesystem."
> Fancy name huh ...
> 
>> The "lockless" mechanism is _FAKE_ as I already pointed out. It replaces
>> locks by do { } while loops. So what ?
> 

How about combining "buffering mechansim of relayfs" and
"kernel-> user space tranport by debugfs"
This will also remove lots of compilcated code from realyfs.

Thanks
Prasanna
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Prasanna S Panchamukhi
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