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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>
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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>
59656e3f 15<br>
b894bf02 16<br>
17<big>LTT Next Generation Roadmap<small><br>
18<br>
19* TODO<br>
20(1) Get lttng ascii dump to work.<br>
0b39e631 21 # <A HREF="mailto:Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>">Lai Jiangshan</A><br>
b894bf02 22- Create periodical buffer flush per-cpu timer for data streaming.<br>
23 # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
24- Modify LTTng/lttd/lttv to support variable-sized buffers.<br>
25 # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
26(1) Support CPUs with scalable frequency.<br>
27(2) Create 3rd generation of userspace tracing.<br>
28(3) Bring stack dump in sync with new lttng.<br>
29(4) Dump mounts. (to fix)<br>
30(4) Add Xen support. (Trace buffer desallocation needs to be fixed)<br>
31(4) integrate NPTL instrumentation (see
32<A HREF="http://nptltracetool.sourceforge.net/">PTT</A>).<br>
33(4) Probe calibration kernel module.<br>
34(4) Make page faults detect nested fault without nesting 4 times in the page
35fault handler. (or use vmalloc_sync_all at each tracing module load)<br>
36(5) Add boot time tracing support.<br>
37(5) Integrate LTTng and lttd with LKCD.<br>
38 # <A HREF="mailto:Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>>">Lai Jiangshan</A><br>
39(7) Integrate periodical dump of perfctr hardware counters.<br>
40(8) Integrate SystemTAP logging with LTTng.<br>
41(8) Integrate periodical dump of SystemTAP computed information.<br>
42(9) Add support for setjmp/longjmp and jump tables instrumentation to
43ltt-instrument-functions.<br>
44(3) port LTTng to :<br>
45ARM OMAP3<BR>
46% Nokia<BR>
47<br>
48<br>
c8a111eb 49<big>LTTV Roadmap<small><br>
50<br>
51* TODO<br>
162990b3 52(3) Add cluster support.<br>
3ccb19e4 53(4) Statistics per time window.<br>
ea53f068 54(4) Add Xen per physical CPU view.<br>
55(4) Add Xen per vcpu view.<br>
3ccb19e4 56(4) Disable plugins when threshold reached (i.e. too much process in control
57flow view). Draw, and, when the threshold is reached, stop drawing. The global
58statistics view can inhibit showing the per process stats.<br>
568c21ab 59(4) Add a visual artifact : PID 0 could be named swapper instead of UNNAMED for
60cpus > 0.<br>
16fe6efa 61(4) Add event specific fields support to filter.<br>
6ed34001 62(4) Add a periodic event interval view. (useful to verify event periodicity)<br>
2d569f51 63(4) create a graphical per cpu activity view.<br>
e6284587 64(4) Filter by target process.<br>
cdee9265 65(4) Compensate for time spent in probes in LTTV analysis.<br>
568c21ab 66(4) Add CPU, network, disk, memory usage histogram. [Per interval statistics]<br>
42c475ad 67(4) Add sort by process priority in the control flow view (must also instrument
68priority information of the processes).<br>
69% Airbus<br>
b35779fc 70(5) Add Python scripting hooks.<br>
80f91a14 71(5) Add GUI interface to take an hybrid trace.<br>
caf22319 72(5) Automatically detect traces with too much processes and disable faulty operations.<br>
b0a1cd56 73(5) Event sequence detector (inspired from regular expressions).<br>
c5cab5d9 74(7) Create a hardware counter viewer (low cost rate counters : L1 cache miss,
75page faults, interrupts...). This will be a generalisation of the event rate
76view into a view of the evolution of a user definable event field.<br>
b85b85e5 77<br>
162990b3 78* TO FIX<br>
b85b85e5 79(10) Add cancel button to LTTV filter GUI window.<br>
80(10) Sometimes, in the control flow view, a process with 0 creation time is
81created in addition to the real process itself. Seems to be caused by end of
82process life.<br>
5355b763 83(10) Statistics do not take in account the time spent in the mode present at
84the beginning of the trace. Example : real time spent in system call on behalf
85of process 0.<br>
c8a111eb 86<br>
87<br>
b720b182 88<br>
89* TODO (low priority)<br>
cbe85414 90enhance RPM packages for lttng kernel<br>
63eeefc3 91Export buffers with time constraint for "live" visualisation. Use
6b18b620 92ltt_force_switch periodically from a timer to insure slow channels do not
63eeefc3 93interfere with viewing.<br>
44397e24 94Have an optional round-robin mode to write information into multiple channels
95from the same source.<br>
b720b182 96<br>
15e89ad6 97* Need to be discussed<br>
b720b182 98Drop ltt-module-register and ltt-module-unregister, use exported variables.<br>
b720b182 99drop ltt_filter_control, use functions pointers instead.<br>
b720b182 100Remove ltt-base.c.<br>
101<br>
b720b182 102Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
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