Re: [diamon-discuss] [RELEASE] LTTng-modules 2.9.11, 2.10.8, 2.11.0-rc2 (Linux kernel tracer)

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Mar 21 2019 - 09:14:07 EST


On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:41:22 -0400
Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Also does it also make sense for lttng ring buffer to use the ftrace code for
> ring buffer, or make the ftrace ring buffer better and have lttng use it? Or
> is the lttng ring buffer design too radically different?

We tried in the past and never actually got something that we both
could agree on. Now I believe the user space tools depend on the way
each one is, so to change one will break the tools that read it.

-- Steve