Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH 1/5]Add some trace markers and exposeinterfaces in kernel for tracing

2008-04-21 Thread Liu, Eric E
Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008 00:38:32 Liu, Eric E wrote: >> Christian Ehrhardt wrote: >>> Liu, Eric E wrote: Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:45:34 Liu, Eric E wrote: [...] > Actually... we could have kvmtrace itself insert the metadata, so >

Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH 1/5]Add some trace markers and exposeinterfaces in kernel for tracing

2008-04-21 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sunday 20 April 2008 00:38:32 Liu, Eric E wrote: > Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > Liu, Eric E wrote: > >> Hollis Blanchard wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:45:34 Liu, Eric E wrote: [...] > >>> Actually... we could have kvmtrace itself insert the metadata, so > >>> there would be no chan

Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH 1/5]Add some trace markers and exposeinterfaces in kernel for tracing

2008-04-19 Thread Liu, Eric E
Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > Liu, Eric E wrote: >> Hollis Blanchard wrote: >>> On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:45:34 Liu, Eric E wrote: [...] >>> Actually... we could have kvmtrace itself insert the metadata, so >>> there would be no chance of it being overwritten in the kernel >>> buffers. The header

Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH 1/5]Add some trace markers and exposeinterfaces in kernel for tracing

2008-04-17 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Liu, Eric E wrote: > Hollis Blanchard wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:45:34 Liu, Eric E wrote: [...] >> Actually... we could have kvmtrace itself insert the metadata, so >> there would be no chance of it being overwritten in the kernel >> buffers. The header could be written in tip_open_out

Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH 1/5]Add some trace markers and exposeinterfaces in kernel for tracing

2008-04-17 Thread Liu, Eric E
Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:45:34 Liu, Eric E wrote: >> >>> Hmm, while we're on the subject, I'm not sure what the best way to >>> automatically byteswap will be. It probably isn't worth it to >>> convert all trace data to a standard ordering (which would add >>> overhe

Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ppc-devel] [PATCH 1/5]Add some trace markers and exposeinterfaces in kernel for tracing

2008-04-17 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:45:34 Liu, Eric E wrote: > > > Hmm, while we're on the subject, I'm not sure what the best way to > > automatically byteswap will be. It probably isn't worth it to convert > > all trace data to a standard ordering (which would add overhead to > > tracing), but I suppo