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Re: Minutes of 6/9/05 meeting
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Jim Keniston <jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 14 Jun 2005 09:54:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: Minutes of 6/9/05 meeting
- References: <1118708508.10599.1.camel@dyn9047018079.beaverton.ibm.com>
> [...] When merging per-CPU data streams, what will be the merge
> key? Sequence number? Timestamp? [...] Per Frank's suggestion,
> Charles (possibly with Matin's help) will create a tapset-style
> template that lays out the possible approaches (timestamps, sequence
> numbers, etc.). [...]
Just to clarify, I did not consider these two issues as connected.
Scripts will want to process "time" values of various kinds (TSC,
jiffies, gettimeofday, ....), and an analysis of these is what I
suggested recording in a new tapset description file.
- FChE