Re: [RFC][PATCH] ftrace interface for blktrace

[Ingo Molnar]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jens,
> 
> 	The patch below adds a ftrace interface for blktrace, allowing 
> people to use it without any required userspace tools, using sysfs to 
> setup the act_mask, pid, start_lba, end_lba.

Very nice patch!

Jens, i'm wondering what's your take on this direction is. I think the 
consolidation effect is great and the built-in IO tracing capabilities are 
very nice.

We can still get the raw events too and do user-space post-processing, 
when that is desired - so this does not limit anything that blktrace was 
able to do before - it only extends on it.

Is there any particular blktrace feature you can think of that is not 
present in the blktrace ftrace plugin?

	Ingo
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