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From: "Alan D. Brunelle" <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
To: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: axboe@suse.de, systemtap@sources.redhat.com,
		linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [blktrace kernel patch] Separate out non-blktrace-specific code
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452D0D30.8050405@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17702.34529.84263.377316@tut.ibm.com>

Tom Zanussi wrote:
> Tom Zanussi writes:
>  > This patch moves the non-block-specific code out of the core blktrace
>  > kernel code and moves it into a separate utt.* files, so that anyone
>  > can use it for generic tracing.  It also adds a config option,
>  > CONFIG_UTT, and hooks up the remaining code in blktrace.c to use it.
>  > The accompanying userspace patch does the same thing for the userspace
>  > tools.
>  > 
>
> I should have mentioned that the kernel patch was against a recent git
> kernel, and doesn't apply cleanly to a 2.6.18 stable kernel.  Here's a
> patch against 2.6.18 stable.  I've only had time to compile-test it -
> no time right now to do anything more, since I'm almost out the
> door - hopefully it works...
>
> Tom
>
>   
FYI: I was able to patch a 2.6.18-based kernel (with this patch) & 
latest blktrace sources, and able to successfully capture traces and 
process them with UTT in place. This seems to work just fine for me.

Alan
PS. Dual-Opteron w/ U320 SCSI disk used for tracing...

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-11 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-05 23:30 Tom Zanussi
2006-10-06 16:39 ` Tom Zanussi
2006-10-11 15:27   ` Alan D. Brunelle [this message]

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