Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Pulling away from the tracing ABI quicksands

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:37:59 +0000
Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> wrote:

> [ I forgot to add Tom to the Cc list. Sending again. ]
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:29:56 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:24:12 +0000
> > Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Yup I’ll start bugging people to submit talk proposals, starting with you!  I’ll put up my proposal in the next day or two, I think Brendan has something he’s going to talk about.  Thanks,    
> > 
> > I shouldn't have used the term "talk", as it really is all about
> > discussions. In fact, if you need more than one slide, you have too
> > many.
> > 
> > That said, I could probably come up with a few things, starting with
> > this trace event issue. But it will be pointless if Peter Zijlstra and
> > Mathieu are not there.
> > 
> > But having ideas about dynamic fields in tracepoints is always
> > interesting. Not to mention talking about Tom Zanussi's latest
> > histogram work. It may be pretty much completed, but I would like to
> > discuss where we go from there.
> > 
> > One last thing. I don't want to have too many responsibilities, as I'm
> > on the LPC program committee and I need to make sure I have time to
> > fulfill any action items I'm responsible for during the conference.
> >   
> 
> Yeah plumbers is a weird venue for tracing, I always hope that we are
> going to have people like Brendan or other sysadmin-y people show up
> and say “this is what sucks about tracing, please fix it”, and then
> we can go fix it.  It doesn’t really seem to happen that way tho, and
> for things like tracing ABI there just aren’t the right people in the
> room to have that kind of discussion.  My proposal was just going to
> be a laundry list of things that would make my life easier, but it
> doesn’t really warrant a full micro-conference to listen to me bitch
> for an hour.  If it turns out nobody else has much to talk about then
> we can just declare tracing is feature complete and we can talk about
> something else ;).  Thanks,
> 

At this rate, I'm guessing that Tracing is not going to be on the
Plumbers' agenda.

-- Steve