ltt/branches/poly/doc/developer/lttng-lttv-roadmap.html

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   3 <center><big><big>LTTV & LTTng roadmap<small><small></center>
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   6 Here are the roadmaps for the LTTV and LTTng development. I use a priority indice
   7 for the TODO items :<br>
   8 (1) : very high priority<br>
   9 (10): lowest priority<br>
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  12 Dependencies are written between brackets [ ].<br>
  13 The # symbol marks who is currently working on the item.<br>
  14 The % 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 (3) Make LTTV aware of type formats defined in the XML file.<br>
  20 (3) Use a per architecture enumeration for traps.<br>
  21 (3) Integrate Kernel State Dump information.<br>
  22 (4) create a event rate graphical view : Will be useful in conjunction with the
  23   filter.<br>
  24         # <A HREF="mailto:Parisa Heidari <parisa.heidari@polymtl.ca>">Parisa Heidari</A><br>
  25 (4) Add event specific fields support to filter.<br>
  26 (4) create a graphical per cpu activity view.<br>
  27 (5) Add Python scripting hooks.<br>
  28 (5) Flight recorder : start lttd automatically upon GUI trace control stop.<br>
  29 (5) Automatically detect traces with too much processes and disable faulty operations.<br>
  30 (5) Event sequence detector (inspired from regular expressions).<br>
  31 (7) create an analysis of function time (like a precise gprof).<br>
  32   -> with gcc -f inline-functions<br>
  33 (7) Create a hardware counter viewer (low cost rate counters : L1 cache miss, page faults, interrupts...).<br>
  34 (10) Add cancel button to LTTV filter GUI window.
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  36 <br>
  37 <big>LTT Next Generation Roadmap<small><br>
  38 <br>
  39 * TODO<br>
  40 (2) add efficient and secure user space tracing. (1 month)<br>
  41         # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
  42 (3) LTTng State Dump : fix process states (currently forced to unknown).<br>
  43         # <A HREF="mailto:Jean-Hugues Deschenes <jean-hugues.deschenes@polymtl.ca>">Jean-Hugues Deschenes</A><br>
  44 (4) efficient dynamic event filtering while recording trace.<br>
  45         % Sensis Corp. <A HREF="mailto:Bish, Tim <Tim.Bish@Sensis.com>">Tim Bish</A><br>
  46 (5) Support CPUs with scalable frequency.<br>
  47 (5) Integrate LTTng and lttd with LKCD.<br>
  48 (6) Add Xen support.<br>
  49 (7) add gcc -finstrument-functions instrumentation<br>
  50 (7) Integrate periodical dump of perfctr hardware counters.<br>
  51 (8) Integrate periodical dump of SystemTAP computed information.<br>
  52 (8) Integrate SystemTAP logging with LTTng.<br>
  53 (3) port LTTng to :<br>
  54 x86_64<BR>
  55 #Autodesk <A HREF="mailto:Francois L'Archeveque <fla@discreet.com>">Francois
  56 L'Archeveque</A> for 2.6.9 RedHat Enterprise (patch available in contrib, still
  57 has to be ported to 2.6.14, thanks!)<BR>
  58 %Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
  59 PPC<BR>
  60 PPC64<BR>
  61 %Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
  62 alpha<BR>
  63 user-mode Linux<BR>
  64 Xen<BR>
  65 MIPS<BR>
  66 MIPS64<BR>
  67 %Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
  68 ARM<BR>
  69         # <A HREF="mailto:Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>">Richard Purdie</A><br>
  70         # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
  71 S/390<BR>
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  75 * TODO (low priority)<br>
  76 enhance RPM packages for lttng kernel<br>
  77 Integrate header generation (genevent) in kernel build system.<br>
  78 Multithreaded lttd.<br>
  79 Find a different way to printk from instrumentation : forbidden from schedule
  80 and wakeup (causes a deadlock). -> Modify printk so it uses LTTng tracer!<br>
  81 Export channels via network sockets instead of writing them to disk.<br>
  82 Export buffers with time constraint for "live" visualisation. Use
  83 ltt_force_switch periodically from a timer to insure slow channels do not
  84 interfere with viewing.<br>
  85 <br>
  86 * Need to be discussed<br>
  87 Use 2.6.14 RelayFS control files.<br>
  88 Drop ltt-module-register and ltt-module-unregister, use exported variables.<br>
  89 drop ltt_filter_control, use functions pointers instead.<br>
  90 Merge facilities headers into one big header.<br>
  91 Change the name of XML files from XML to something else.<br>
  92 Remove ltt-base.c.<br>
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  94 <br>
  95 * lttng patch division (0.5.10+) :<br>
  96 <br>
  97 instrumentation.diff
  98 instrumentation-arm.diff
  99 instrumentation-i386.diff
 100 instrumentation-mips.diff
 101 instrumentation-powerpc.diff
 102 instrumentation-ppc.diff
 103 instrumentation-s390.diff
 104 instrumentation-sh.diff
 105 ltt-facilities-headers.diff<br>
 106 ltt-facilities-loader.diff<br>
 107 ltt-facilities.diff<br>
 108 ltt-relayfs.diff<br>
 109 ltt-core.diff<br>
 110 ltt-build.diff<br>
 111 <br>
 112 <br>
 113 Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
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