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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, cl@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rdunlap@xenotime.net, mpm@selenic.co
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] kmemtrace: Core implementation.
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:28:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mvdyx7gnj.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216751493-13785-2-git-send-email-eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> (eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:31:30 +0300")

Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> writes:

> kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as kmalloc,
> kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected data is then fed
> to the userspace application in order to analyse allocation hotspots,
> internal fragmentation and so on, making it possible to see how well an
> allocator performs, as well as debug and profile kernel code.
> [...]

It may make sense to mention in addition that this version of
kmemtrace uses markers as the low-level hook mechanism, and this makes
the data generated directly accessible to other tracing tools such as
systemtap.  Thank you!


- FChE

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-22 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-22 18:31 [RFC PATCH 0/4] kmemtrace RFC (resend 2) Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] kmemtrace: Core implementation Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-22 18:31   ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] kmemtrace: SLAB hooks Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-22 18:31     ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] kmemtrace: SLUB hooks Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-22 18:31       ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] kmemtrace: SLOB hooks Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-22 21:28   ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2008-07-23  0:50     ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] kmemtrace: Core implementation Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-23  0:55       ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-23  1:26       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-22 18:36 [RFC PATCH 0/4] kmemtrace RFC (resend 2, fixed wrong Cc) Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-22 18:36 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] kmemtrace: Core implementation Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-28  9:24   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-28 16:29     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-28 17:09       ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-28 17:35       ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-29  8:25         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-17  0:46 [RFC PATCH 0/4] kmemtrace RFC (resubmit 1) Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-17  0:46 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] kmemtrace: Core implementation Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-17  8:01   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-17 18:32     ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-18  8:48       ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-07-18 10:13         ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-18 14:38           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-18 19:40             ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-18 20:07               ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-17 21:34   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-17 23:49     ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu

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