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e3a30a9e 3<center><big><big>LTTV & LTTng roadmap<small><small></center>
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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>
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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>
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b894bf02 16<br>
17<big>LTT Next Generation Roadmap<small><br>
18<br>
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19* TODO (high priority)<br>
20<BR>
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21(1) LTTng event description: move from tracepoint/markers to Ftrace TRACE_EVENT
22 declarations. Extend TRACE_EVENT as needed. (<A HREF="mailto: Douglas Santos
c6ee80cb 23<douglas.santos@polymtl.ca>">Douglas Santos</A>)<BR>
c311e9d5 24(1) LTTng ring buffer adaptation for FTrace.<A HREF="mailto:
c6ee80cb 25<mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A>)<BR>
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26(1) FTrace/LTTng trace format standardization.<BR>
27(1) Extend NO_HZ support vs trace streaming support to other architectures (need
28to add cpu idle notifiers and test).<br>
29(1) Make sure ltt-ascii kernel text dump fits well with streaming hooked into
30cpu idle.<br>
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31(1) Support CPUs with scalable frequency with a time-consistent increment and
32with an approach scalable to SMP. (done for ARM OMAP3 UP only, but the OMAP3
33approach should be tested and probably derived into an SMP implementation)<br>
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35<br>
36* Nice to have<br>
b894bf02 37(3) Bring stack dump in sync with new lttng.<br>
38(4) Dump mounts. (to fix)<br>
39(4) Add Xen support. (Trace buffer desallocation needs to be fixed)<br>
40(4) integrate NPTL instrumentation (see
41<A HREF="http://nptltracetool.sourceforge.net/">PTT</A>).<br>
42(4) Probe calibration kernel module.<br>
43(4) Make page faults detect nested fault without nesting 4 times in the page
44fault handler. (or use vmalloc_sync_all at each tracing module load)<br>
45(5) Add boot time tracing support.<br>
46(5) Integrate LTTng and lttd with LKCD.<br>
47 # <A HREF="mailto:Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>>">Lai Jiangshan</A><br>
48(7) Integrate periodical dump of perfctr hardware counters.<br>
49(8) Integrate SystemTAP logging with LTTng.<br>
50(8) Integrate periodical dump of SystemTAP computed information.<br>
51(9) Add support for setjmp/longjmp and jump tables instrumentation to
52ltt-instrument-functions.<br>
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55<br>
c8a111eb 56<big>LTTV Roadmap<small><br>
57<br>
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58Note: new feature development is currently done in the Linux Tools Project:
59LTTng Integration. Mainwhile, LTTV is maintained as a known-stable viewer.<br>
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61<br>
62* Nice to have<br>
3ccb19e4 63(4) Statistics per time window.<br>
ea53f068 64(4) Add Xen per physical CPU view.<br>
65(4) Add Xen per vcpu view.<br>
3ccb19e4 66(4) Disable plugins when threshold reached (i.e. too much process in control
67flow view). Draw, and, when the threshold is reached, stop drawing. The global
68statistics view can inhibit showing the per process stats.<br>
568c21ab 69(4) Add a visual artifact : PID 0 could be named swapper instead of UNNAMED for
70cpus > 0.<br>
16fe6efa 71(4) Add event specific fields support to filter.<br>
6ed34001 72(4) Add a periodic event interval view. (useful to verify event periodicity)<br>
2d569f51 73(4) create a graphical per cpu activity view.<br>
e6284587 74(4) Filter by target process.<br>
cdee9265 75(4) Compensate for time spent in probes in LTTV analysis.<br>
568c21ab 76(4) Add CPU, network, disk, memory usage histogram. [Per interval statistics]<br>
42c475ad 77(4) Add sort by process priority in the control flow view (must also instrument
78priority information of the processes).<br>
79% Airbus<br>
b35779fc 80(5) Add Python scripting hooks.<br>
80f91a14 81(5) Add GUI interface to take an hybrid trace.<br>
caf22319 82(5) Automatically detect traces with too much processes and disable faulty operations.<br>
b0a1cd56 83(5) Event sequence detector (inspired from regular expressions).<br>
c5cab5d9 84(7) Create a hardware counter viewer (low cost rate counters : L1 cache miss,
85page faults, interrupts...). This will be a generalisation of the event rate
86view into a view of the evolution of a user definable event field.<br>
b85b85e5 87<br>
162990b3 88* TO FIX<br>
b85b85e5 89(10) Add cancel button to LTTV filter GUI window.<br>
90(10) Sometimes, in the control flow view, a process with 0 creation time is
91created in addition to the real process itself. Seems to be caused by end of
92process life.<br>
5355b763 93(10) Statistics do not take in account the time spent in the mode present at
94the beginning of the trace. Example : real time spent in system call on behalf
95of process 0.<br>
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b720b182 98Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
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