* David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/18/13 5:35 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > >Therefore my question should be restated as: > > > >Would perf developers accept the "syscall pausing" feature, > >or it won't be accepted? > > I have been using perf-trace a lot lately specifically because it is > effectively a 'passive' observer of the task (e.g., time-sensitive tasks > can be traced with perf but not with strace).
Yes, this is not just an important but a primary design goal for all perf utilities: if the tracing buffers used are large enough then it should be a nearly zero-overhead observer that preserves all previous patterns of behavior as much as possible. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/