Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:22:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] LTTng relay buffer allocation, read, write |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > In Steven's scheme, the event IDs in the 4 bytes are reserved for > (useless) internal use ;) They can therefore not be used for specific > tracer event IDs, which I think is a misuse of the precious bits > otherwise available to store really useful event IDs.
I'm using them, so they must not be totally useless. ;-)
But ftrace has its own event ids and I don't want the ring buffer to ever have to know about them.
-- Steve
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