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

[Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>]

[ 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,

Josef