Hi Karim, > Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> It's not only me, who needs constant time. Everybody interested in >> tracing will need that. In my opinion its a principle of tracing. > > relayfs is a generalized buffering mechanism. Tracing is one application > it serves. Check out the web site: "high-speed data-relay filesystem." > Fancy name huh ... > >> The "lockless" mechanism is _FAKE_ as I already pointed out. It replaces >> locks by do { } while loops. So what ? >
How about combining "buffering mechansim of relayfs" and "kernel-> user space tranport by debugfs" This will also remove lots of compilcated code from realyfs. Thanks Prasanna -- Prasanna S Panchamukhi Linux Technology Center India Software Labs, IBM Bangalore Ph: 91-80-25044636 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/