Re: [Patch] statistics: fix buffer overflow in histogram with linear scale

From: Frank Ch. Eigler
Date: Fri Oct 20 2006 - 17:16:50 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> So... what are we going to do with the statistics stuff? It needs users
> to prove its desirability/suitability. I think there was some work done in
> the SCSI area - did that come to anything?

There may be an opportunity here for combining this and the
markers-based lttng work. Statistics gathering would be just one of
several possible back-end for events corresponding to scsi quantity
changes: tracing or more elaborate probing would also be enabled.

- FChE
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