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3<center><big><big>LTTV & LTTng roadmap<small><small></center>
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6Here are the roadmaps for the LTTV and LTTng development. I use a priority indice
7for the TODO items :<br>
8(1) : very high priority<br>
9(10): lowest priority<br>
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12Dependencies are written between brackets [ ].<br>
13The # symbol marks who is currently working on the item.<br>
14The % symbol marks who is interested in the realisation of the item.<br>
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16<big>LTTV Roadmap<small><br>
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18* TODO<br>
19(2) Finish pre-computing of states to a file.<br>
20(3) Add cluster support.<br>
21 # <A HREF="mailto:Eric Clement <eric.clement@polymtl.ca>">Eric Clement</A><br>
22(3) Make LTTV aware of type formats (visual separators) defined in the XML
23file.<br>
24(3) Use a per architecture enumeration for traps.<br>
25(3) Change the byte pair "facility, event" id for a short combining the
26informatinon.<br>
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>
31(4) Add a visual artifact : PID 0 could be named swapper instead of UNNAMED for
32cpus > 0.<br>
33(4) Add event specific fields support to filter.<br>
34(4) Add a periodic event interval view. (useful to verify event periodicity)<br>
35(4) create a graphical per cpu activity view.<br>
36(4) Add CPU, network, disk, memory usage histogram. [Per interval statistics]<br>
37(5) Add Python scripting hooks.<br>
38(5) Flight recorder : start lttd automatically upon GUI trace control stop.<br>
39(5) Automatically detect traces with too much processes and disable faulty operations.<br>
40(5) Event sequence detector (inspired from regular expressions).<br>
41(7) Create a hardware counter viewer (low cost rate counters : L1 cache miss,
42page faults, interrupts...). This will be a generalisation of the event rate
43view into a view of the evolution of a user definable event field.<br>
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45* TO FIX<br>
46(4) Fix scroll backward in detailed event list (introduced with "stop"
47functionnality.<br>
48(10) Add cancel button to LTTV filter GUI window.<br>
49(10) Sometimes, in the control flow view, a process with 0 creation time is
50created in addition to the real process itself. Seems to be caused by end of
51process life.<br>
52(10) Statistics do not take in account the time spent in the mode present at
53the beginning of the trace. Example : real time spent in system call on behalf
54of process 0.<br>
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56<br>
57<big>LTT Next Generation Roadmap<small><br>
58<br>
59* TODO<br>
60(3) Find a way to make logging know when it causes a minor page fault
61recursively (without ignoring silently all nested events).<br>
62(3) Have various subbuffer sizes for high and low rate channels.<br>
63(3) Change the byte pair "facility, event" id for a short combining the
64informatinon.<br>
65(3) Add sysenter instrumentation on x86. Verify x86_64.<br>
66(4) Add Xen support.<br>
67 # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
68 # <A HREF="mailto:Parisa Heidari <parisa.heidari@polymtl.ca>">Parisa Heidari</A><br>
69(4) efficient dynamic event filtering while recording trace.<br>
70 % Sensis Corp. <A HREF="mailto:Bish, Tim <Tim.Bish@Sensis.com>">Tim Bish</A><br>
71(4) instrument kernel bottom half irqsave, spinlocks, rwlocks, seqlocks, semaphores, mutexes, brlock.<br>
72(4) In flight recorder mode, have the low traffic channels saved as normal
73tracefiles and high traffic channels being flight recorder.<br>
74(4) Try to use my own non LOCK prefixed version of atomic operations : we are
75using per-CPU variables, so it should make it possible.<br>
76(4) integrate NPTL instrumentation (see
77<A HREF="http://nptltracetool.sourceforge.net/">PTT</A>).<br>
78(5) Support CPUs with scalable frequency.<br>
79(5) Integrate LTTng and lttd with LKCD.<br>
80(7) Integrate periodical dump of perfctr hardware counters.<br>
81(8) Integrate periodical dump of SystemTAP computed information.<br>
82(8) Integrate SystemTAP logging with LTTng.<br>
83(9) Add support for setjmp/longjmp and jump tables instrumentation to
84ltt-instrument-functions.<br>
85(9) Make ltt-usertrace-fast support internal heartbeat timer.<br>
86(3) port LTTng to :<br>
87x86_64<BR>
88#Autodesk <A HREF="mailto:Francois L'Archeveque <fla@discreet.com>">Francois
89L'Archeveque</A> for 2.6.9 RedHat Enterprise (patch available in contrib, still
90has to be ported to 2.6.14, thanks!)<BR>
91# Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
92PPC<BR>
93PPC64<BR>
94# Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
95alpha<BR>
96user-mode Linux<BR>
97Xen<BR>
98# IBM<BR>
99MIPS<BR>
100MIPS64<BR>
101% Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
102# Tim Bird <A HREF="mailto:tim.bird@as.sony.com">Tim Bird</A><br>
103S/390<BR>
104RTLinux<BR>
105% Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
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108<br>
109* TODO (low priority)<br>
110enhance RPM packages for lttng kernel<br>
111Integrate header generation (genevent) in kernel build system.<br>
112Export channels via network sockets instead of writing them to disk.<br>
113Export buffers with time constraint for "live" visualisation. Use
114ltt_force_switch periodically from a timer to insure slow channels do not
115interfere with viewing.<br>
116Have an optional round-robin mode to write information into multiple channels
117from the same source.<br>
118<br>
119* Need to be discussed<br>
120Use 2.6.14 RelayFS control files.<br>
121Drop ltt-module-register and ltt-module-unregister, use exported variables.<br>
122drop ltt_filter_control, use functions pointers instead.<br>
123Merge facilities headers into one big header.<br>
124Change the name of XML files from XML to something else.<br>
125Remove ltt-base.c.<br>
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127<br>
128* lttng patch division (0.5.10+) :<br>
129<br>
130instrumentation.diff<br>
131instrumentation-arm.diff<br>
132instrumentation-i386.diff<br>
133instrumentation-mips.diff<br>
134instrumentation-powerpc.diff<br>
135instrumentation-ppc.diff<br>
136instrumentation-s390.diff<br>
137instrumentation-sh.diff<br>
138ltt-facilities-headers.diff<br>
139ltt-facilities-loader.diff<br>
140ltt-facilities.diff<br>
141ltt-relayfs.diff<br>
142ltt-core.diff<br>
143ltt-build.diff<br>
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145<br>
146Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
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