thoughts

[Jose R. Santos]

Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> [050926]:
> We are working on a kernel tracing tool that seems to share a lot with the
> trace tool you are talking about.
> 
> We have a kernel tracer (LTTng) and a trace viewer (LTTV) which are based on
> static kernel instrumentation.
> 
> One of the main advantages of the LTTng tracing code is that it is fast. It
> seems to be a downside of SystemTAP. We use a code generator that takes an event
> description to generate the tracing code that can be inserted through module
> loading.
> 
> I think that you might be interested to have a look at it. Here is the website :
> http://ltt.polymtl.ca

Hi Mathieu,

I've been looking at the LTTV component and it is the same basic
concept I wanted to create as part of our project.  It would be nice
not to re-write all this from scratch so I'm looking at how to
integrate LTTV into the SystemTap trace functionality that we are
working on.

Thanks

-JRS