Re: Benchmarks of kernel tracing options (ftrace and ktrace)

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 18:32:22 EST


On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:27 -0800, David Sharp wrote:

> Steve, Mike told me that you may have some patches to improve overhead
> of syscall tracing. I'd be interested in testing them. Can you send
> them my way?

Mike may have been confused ;-)

I did tell him that some ring buffer improvements did make it into the
kernel. You might want to try the latest mainline again.

I even have other patches that might help. I'll have to go and dig them
up.

-- Steve


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