Tracing BOFat OLS2006

Will Cohen of Red Hat organized this BOF.

Tim Bird and Matthieu Desnoyers also presented.

Tim Bird's presentation: Media:OLS2006-Tracing-BOF.ppt

[ need details of the discussion here. ]

One of Tim's slides, "Ideas for Collaboration" has the following bullets:

• Integrate KFT into LTTng
• Have LTTng support externally-defined, but compiled-in, tracepoints
• Stabilize trace buffer mechanism in kernel
• Build best-of-systemtap functions module, which can be compiled-in
• Standardize trace file format