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

From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Fri Mar 22 2019 - 09:48:19 EST


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:13:56AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 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.

I understand :-\

thanks,

- Joel