Default number of active kretprobes

Jim Keniston jkenisto@us.ibm.com
Fri Mar 24 00:43:00 GMT 2006


By the way, regarding the problem of underestimating maxactive, we
briefly considered the idea of having a system-wide pool of
kretprobe_instances to draw on in case any particular kretprobe runs
short.  But that adds a little more complexity to the implementation and
to the user interface.  (Presumably, the pool size would be a
configuration option.)

It shouldn't be too tough to prototype that -- probably just adjust
get_free_rp_inst() and recycle_rp_inst().

Jim



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