Re: ktr port from FreeBSD

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:42:29AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Also, the FreeBSD code probably used mutexes where you are using a token.
>     For ktr_tracepoint() to be callable from 'anywhere' you can't use a token
>     there but must instead convert the code to use a critical section and
>     per-cpu arrays.

I've been talking about this and other parts of the patch with Eirik
already and he/we will convert it to full per-cpu structures in a second
instance.

>     Also, 1024 entries is probably not nearly enough for a tracepoint 
>     utility to be useful.  We'd need a lot of entries... a million or more,
>     for it to be really useful, which implies dynamically allocating the 
>     array at boot time rather then declaring it static.

That will happen together with above change.

Joerg

> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>