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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>
162990b3 19(3) Add cluster support.<br>
20 # <A HREF="mailto:Eric Clement <eric.clement@polymtl.ca>">Eric Clement</A><br>
ef19b009 21(3) Make LTTV aware of type formats (visual separators) defined in the XML
22file.<br>
0e5e1f2b 23 # <A HREF="mailto:Gabriel Matni <gabrien.matni@polymtl.ca>">Gabriel
24 # Matni</A><br>
15b0e8a4 25(3) Use a per architecture enumeration for traps.<br>
568c21ab 26(3) Change the byte pair "facility, event" id for a short combining the
27informatinon.<br>
3ccb19e4 28(4) Statistics per time window.<br>
ea53f068 29(4) Add Xen per physical CPU view.<br>
30(4) Add Xen per vcpu view.<br>
3ccb19e4 31(4) Disable plugins when threshold reached (i.e. too much process in control
32flow view). Draw, and, when the threshold is reached, stop drawing. The global
33statistics view can inhibit showing the per process stats.<br>
568c21ab 34(4) Add a visual artifact : PID 0 could be named swapper instead of UNNAMED for
35cpus > 0.<br>
16fe6efa 36(4) Add event specific fields support to filter.<br>
6ed34001 37(4) Add a periodic event interval view. (useful to verify event periodicity)<br>
2d569f51 38(4) create a graphical per cpu activity view.<br>
e6284587 39(4) Filter by target process.<br>
cdee9265 40(4) Compensate for time spent in probes in LTTV analysis.<br>
568c21ab 41(4) Add CPU, network, disk, memory usage histogram. [Per interval statistics]<br>
b35779fc 42(5) Add Python scripting hooks.<br>
80f91a14 43(5) Add GUI interface to take an hybrid trace.<br>
b0a1cd56 44(5) Flight recorder : start lttd automatically upon GUI trace control stop.<br>
caf22319 45(5) Automatically detect traces with too much processes and disable faulty operations.<br>
b0a1cd56 46(5) Event sequence detector (inspired from regular expressions).<br>
c5cab5d9 47(7) Create a hardware counter viewer (low cost rate counters : L1 cache miss,
48page faults, interrupts...). This will be a generalisation of the event rate
49view into a view of the evolution of a user definable event field.<br>
b85b85e5 50<br>
162990b3 51* TO FIX<br>
b85b85e5 52(10) Add cancel button to LTTV filter GUI window.<br>
53(10) Sometimes, in the control flow view, a process with 0 creation time is
54created in addition to the real process itself. Seems to be caused by end of
55process life.<br>
5355b763 56(10) Statistics do not take in account the time spent in the mode present at
57the beginning of the trace. Example : real time spent in system call on behalf
58of process 0.<br>
c8a111eb 59<br>
60<br>
c8a111eb 61<big>LTT Next Generation Roadmap<small><br>
0c4b3d55 62<br>
c8a111eb 63* TODO<br>
9675a7c5 64(1) efficient dynamic event filtering while recording trace.<br>
65 % Google
66 % Sensis Corp. <A HREF="mailto:Bish, Tim <Tim.Bish@Sensis.com>">Tim Bish</A><br>
67 # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
68(1) Support for compact event trace channel.<br>
69 % Google
70 # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
5c9bffdd 71(1) CPU Hotplug support. (Only ltt-heartbeat needs to be fixed).<br>
9675a7c5 72 # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
73(1) Add Xen support. (Trace buffer desallocation needs to be fixed)<br>
ea53f068 74 # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
00748255 75(1) Integrate SystemTAP logging with LTTng.<br>
568c21ab 76(3) Change the byte pair "facility, event" id for a short combining the
77informatinon.<br>
1e5a121c 78(4) instrument kernel bottom half irqsave, spinlocks, rwlocks, seqlocks, semaphores, mutexes, brlock.<br>
79(4) integrate NPTL instrumentation (see
80<A HREF="http://nptltracetool.sourceforge.net/">PTT</A>).<br>
cdee9265 81(4) Probe calibration kernel module.<br>
a7bdb436 82(4) Make page faults detect nested fault without nesting 4 times in the page
83fault handler.<br>
3f43b8fb 84(5) Support CPUs with scalable frequency.<br>
dbcdc489 85(5) Add boot time tracing support.<br>
2a341212 86(5) Integrate LTTng and lttd with LKCD.<br>
575b7e97 87(7) Integrate periodical dump of perfctr hardware counters.<br>
cc5ce8a0 88(8) Integrate periodical dump of SystemTAP computed information.<br>
abae8bb0 89(9) Rethink facility logging code (genevent output). Maybe unneeded because of
90markers/probes mechanism.<br>
9fd0275c 91(9) Add support for setjmp/longjmp and jump tables instrumentation to
451c9b19 92ltt-instrument-functions.<br>
51096bff 93(9) Make ltt-usertrace-fast support internal heartbeat timer.<br>
6b18b620 94(3) port LTTng to :<br>
e565223b 95alpha<BR>
96user-mode Linux<BR>
97Xen<BR>
841c926b 98# IBM<BR>
e565223b 99S/390<BR>
d804e215 100RTLinux<BR>
101% Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
9675a7c5 102sparc64<BR>
103# Wind River<BR>
db7e253c 104sh4<br>
0c4b3d55 105<br>
15e89ad6 106<br>
b720b182 107<br>
108* TODO (low priority)<br>
cbe85414 109enhance RPM packages for lttng kernel<br>
b720b182 110Integrate header generation (genevent) in kernel build system.<br>
63eeefc3 111Export channels via network sockets instead of writing them to disk.<br>
112Export buffers with time constraint for "live" visualisation. Use
6b18b620 113ltt_force_switch periodically from a timer to insure slow channels do not
63eeefc3 114interfere with viewing.<br>
44397e24 115Have an optional round-robin mode to write information into multiple channels
116from the same source.<br>
b720b182 117<br>
15e89ad6 118* Need to be discussed<br>
af3cfedc 119Use 2.6.14 RelayFS control files.<br>
b720b182 120Drop ltt-module-register and ltt-module-unregister, use exported variables.<br>
b720b182 121drop ltt_filter_control, use functions pointers instead.<br>
b720b182 122Merge facilities headers into one big header.<br>
123Change the name of XML files from XML to something else.<br>
124Remove ltt-base.c.<br>
125<br>
b720b182 126Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
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