> * Ingo Molnar (
mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> >
> > * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > See, these tracer tools are my nightmare as member of an
> > > enterprise linux team. They'll make an already hard job even
> > > harder, no thanks!
> >
> > i'm clearly NAK-ing all futex trace hooks until the true impact of
> > the whole marker facility is better understood. I've tried them for
> > the scheduler and they were a clear failure: too bloated and too
> > persistent.
>
> I have not seen any counter argument for the in-depth analysis of the
> instruction cache impact of the optimized markers I've done. Arguing
> that the markers are "bloated" based only on "size kernel/sched.o"
> output is a bit misleading.
