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e3a30a9e 3<center><big><big>LTTV & LTTng roadmap<small><small></center>
674fa3b3 4<br>
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5e11a375 6Here are the roadmaps for the LTTV and LTTng development. I use a priority indice
fc5993d2 7for the TODO items :<br>
90d65afc 8(1) : very high priority<br>
9(10): lowest priority<br>
fc5993d2 10<br>
11<br>
6b18b620 12Dependencies are written between brackets [ ].<br>
59656e3f 13The # symbol marks who is currently working on the item.<br>
e565223b 14The % symbol marks who is interested in the realisation of the item.<br>
59656e3f 15<br>
c8a111eb 16<big>LTTV Roadmap<small><br>
17<br>
18* TODO<br>
9f95f0a6 19(2) Finish pre-computing of states to a file.<br>
162990b3 20(3) Add cluster support.<br>
21 # <A HREF="mailto:Eric Clement <eric.clement@polymtl.ca>">Eric Clement</A><br>
ef19b009 22(3) Make LTTV aware of type formats (visual separators) defined in the XML
23file.<br>
15b0e8a4 24(3) Use a per architecture enumeration for traps.<br>
568c21ab 25(3) Change the byte pair "facility, event" id for a short combining the
26informatinon.<br>
3ccb19e4 27(4) Statistics per time window.<br>
28(4) Disable plugins when threshold reached (i.e. too much process in control
29flow view). Draw, and, when the threshold is reached, stop drawing. The global
30statistics view can inhibit showing the per process stats.<br>
568c21ab 31(4) Add a visual artifact : PID 0 could be named swapper instead of UNNAMED for
32cpus > 0.<br>
16fe6efa 33(4) Add event specific fields support to filter.<br>
6ed34001 34(4) Add a periodic event interval view. (useful to verify event periodicity)<br>
2d569f51 35(4) create a graphical per cpu activity view.<br>
e6284587 36(4) Filter by target process.<br>
cdee9265 37(4) Compensate for time spent in probes in LTTV analysis.<br>
568c21ab 38(4) Add CPU, network, disk, memory usage histogram. [Per interval statistics]<br>
b35779fc 39(5) Add Python scripting hooks.<br>
80f91a14 40(5) Add GUI interface to take an hybrid trace.<br>
b0a1cd56 41(5) Flight recorder : start lttd automatically upon GUI trace control stop.<br>
caf22319 42(5) Automatically detect traces with too much processes and disable faulty operations.<br>
b0a1cd56 43(5) Event sequence detector (inspired from regular expressions).<br>
c5cab5d9 44(7) Create a hardware counter viewer (low cost rate counters : L1 cache miss,
45page faults, interrupts...). This will be a generalisation of the event rate
46view into a view of the evolution of a user definable event field.<br>
b85b85e5 47<br>
162990b3 48* TO FIX<br>
b85b85e5 49(10) Add cancel button to LTTV filter GUI window.<br>
50(10) Sometimes, in the control flow view, a process with 0 creation time is
51created in addition to the real process itself. Seems to be caused by end of
52process life.<br>
5355b763 53(10) Statistics do not take in account the time spent in the mode present at
54the beginning of the trace. Example : real time spent in system call on behalf
55of process 0.<br>
c8a111eb 56<br>
57<br>
c8a111eb 58<big>LTT Next Generation Roadmap<small><br>
0c4b3d55 59<br>
c8a111eb 60* TODO<br>
cb374fc3 61(2) Post a "lite" LTTng version to LKML (core only).<br>
62(2) Post an updated LTTng version to LKML (2.6.18-rcX).<br>
568c21ab 63(3) Change the byte pair "facility, event" id for a short combining the
64informatinon.<br>
285468d4 65(4) Add Xen support.<br>
51096bff 66 # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
285468d4 67 # <A HREF="mailto:Parisa Heidari <parisa.heidari@polymtl.ca>">Parisa Heidari</A><br>
59ce71d0 68(4) efficient dynamic event filtering while recording trace.<br>
69 % Sensis Corp. <A HREF="mailto:Bish, Tim <Tim.Bish@Sensis.com>">Tim Bish</A><br>
1e5a121c 70(4) instrument kernel bottom half irqsave, spinlocks, rwlocks, seqlocks, semaphores, mutexes, brlock.<br>
568c21ab 71(4) Try to use my own non LOCK prefixed version of atomic operations : we are
72using per-CPU variables, so it should make it possible.<br>
1e5a121c 73(4) integrate NPTL instrumentation (see
74<A HREF="http://nptltracetool.sourceforge.net/">PTT</A>).<br>
cdee9265 75(4) Probe calibration kernel module.<br>
a7bdb436 76(4) Make page faults detect nested fault without nesting 4 times in the page
77fault handler.<br>
cdee9265 78(5) Discuss with RelayFS upstream to integrate LTTng modifications.<br>
79(5) Move to DebugFS for channel files.<br>
3f43b8fb 80(5) Support CPUs with scalable frequency.<br>
2a341212 81(5) Integrate LTTng and lttd with LKCD.<br>
575b7e97 82(7) Integrate periodical dump of perfctr hardware counters.<br>
cc5ce8a0 83(8) Integrate periodical dump of SystemTAP computed information.<br>
84(8) Integrate SystemTAP logging with LTTng.<br>
9fd0275c 85(9) Add support for setjmp/longjmp and jump tables instrumentation to
451c9b19 86ltt-instrument-functions.<br>
51096bff 87(9) Make ltt-usertrace-fast support internal heartbeat timer.<br>
6b18b620 88(3) port LTTng to :<br>
e565223b 89alpha<BR>
90user-mode Linux<BR>
91Xen<BR>
841c926b 92# IBM<BR>
e565223b 93S/390<BR>
d804e215 94RTLinux<BR>
95% Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
0c4b3d55 96<br>
15e89ad6 97<br>
b720b182 98<br>
99* TODO (low priority)<br>
cbe85414 100enhance RPM packages for lttng kernel<br>
b720b182 101Integrate header generation (genevent) in kernel build system.<br>
63eeefc3 102Export channels via network sockets instead of writing them to disk.<br>
103Export buffers with time constraint for "live" visualisation. Use
6b18b620 104ltt_force_switch periodically from a timer to insure slow channels do not
63eeefc3 105interfere with viewing.<br>
44397e24 106Have an optional round-robin mode to write information into multiple channels
107from the same source.<br>
b720b182 108<br>
15e89ad6 109* Need to be discussed<br>
af3cfedc 110Use 2.6.14 RelayFS control files.<br>
b720b182 111Drop ltt-module-register and ltt-module-unregister, use exported variables.<br>
b720b182 112drop ltt_filter_control, use functions pointers instead.<br>
b720b182 113Merge facilities headers into one big header.<br>
114Change the name of XML files from XML to something else.<br>
115Remove ltt-base.c.<br>
116<br>
b720b182 117<br>
2966f052 118* lttng patch division (0.5.10+) :<br>
119<br>
451c9b19 120instrumentation.diff<br>
121instrumentation-arm.diff<br>
122instrumentation-i386.diff<br>
123instrumentation-mips.diff<br>
124instrumentation-powerpc.diff<br>
125instrumentation-ppc.diff<br>
126instrumentation-s390.diff<br>
127instrumentation-sh.diff<br>
b720b182 128ltt-facilities-headers.diff<br>
129ltt-facilities-loader.diff<br>
130ltt-facilities.diff<br>
b720b182 131ltt-relayfs.diff<br>
b720b182 132ltt-core.diff<br>
2966f052 133ltt-build.diff<br>
b720b182 134<br>
135<br>
136Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
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