Re: [Patch -tip 3/3] Tracing/ftrace: Don't consume entries unhandledby mmiotrace

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> the new trace-ringbuffer design Steve is working on would abstract away 
> this complication - then we could make tracers truly independent 
> entities.

Yep, I even started implementing this. What is nice about this too, is 
that we could even mix the tracer buffers together in the merge sort. 
Since all buffers use the same timestamping, we can keep the separate 
buffers out, turn on different tracers, and have the output show them all 
together.

This would mean that we can keep the function tracer buffer large, and the 
other tracer buffers smaller. And merge them together when needed.

I'll have to recreate it, since the buffer code changed quite a bit since 
I first started making ftrace do this. Also, I want to make the changes to 
ftrace as incremental as possible. That way we could easily diagnose 
problems that arise.

-- Steve
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