Adding a new VFS Lttng module for performance testing

[deanraccoon]

ping Ralph?

deanraccoon <deanraccoon at gmail.com> 于2018年12月25日周二 上午11:28写道：
>
> Hi, Ralph,
>     I have updated the patcheset on the latest master. And also added
> a new man page for the lttng module,
> Can you have a look at it ?
>
> Ralph Böhme <slow at samba.org> 于2018年12月18日周二 上午12:50写道：
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > sorry, looks like we dropped the ball on this one.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:04:03PM +0800, deanraccoon wrote:
> > >I think syscalls only works for local file system. When I was tuning the samba
> > >ceph/glusterfs module. Neither systemtap nor bpf could help me.
> >
> > ah, I see. Well, you can trace arbitray functions with Systemtap, but after some
> > more research I see another argument for having the ltt-ng VFS module. With
> > Systemtap every enabled tracepoint that is excersized triggers a context switch
> > as all metrics are gathered in the kernel by Systemtap. As a result for large
> > number of enabled trace points (think: all syscalls) the performance impact on
> > the process becomes significant.
> >
> > With ltt-ng by contrast the metrics are collected in userspace so the costly
> > context switch is avoided.
> >
> > Can you send us an updated patchset on top of current master? We'll also need a
> > manpage. I'll happily review and will help getting this integrated.
> >
> > -slow
> >
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