Hi Neependra, >> My question is, Is there a better way (better than logging) of >> tracking operations internal to the kernel continuously over long >> period of time in a way that doesn't affect latency (very >> drastically)? > > You can look at SystemTap which has very less overhead. > http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki Thanks for the info! Will check it out. I also found something about trace_printk (part of ftrace) which is faster than printk because it doesn't output to the console, instead it writes to a circular buffer which can be read from userspace. Very nice indeed! lwn.net/Articles/365835/ Thanks, -Joel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
