Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:21:31 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] unlikely profiler and tracer |
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > two more small details i noticed: > > > > - does it do proper self-test? It doesnt seem so at first sight. > > Hmm, no. The problem is that it is a switch to be added to other > tracers. There's not a branch profiling tracer itself. I could add > one that just does that, and that could do the self test.
i know that it's an iter_ctrl detail, but nevertheless the branch tracer (which is how people will be using this) should have some self-test.
it might also make sense to just have a standalone 'branch' tracer plugin as well. We have all the callbacks in place already, and people might be interested in just that info - not in some other tracing output.
Ingo
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