Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> i have one very fundamental question: why should we do this 
> source-intrusive method of adding tracepoints instead of the dynamic, 
> unintrusive (and thus zero-overhead) KProbes+SystemTap method?

Could you define "zero-overhead"?
Actual implementation aside having a core number of tracepoints is far 
more portable than KProbes.

bye, Roman
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