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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 (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
  23 file.<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
  26 informatinon.<br>
  27 (4) Statistics per time window.<br>
  28 (4) Disable plugins when threshold reached (i.e. too much process in control
  29 flow view). Draw, and, when the threshold is reached, stop drawing. The global
  30 statistics 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
  32 cpus > 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) Filter by target process.<br>
  37 (4) Compensate for time spent in probes in LTTV analysis.<br>
  38 (4) Add CPU, network, disk, memory usage histogram. [Per interval statistics]<br>
  39 (5) Add Python scripting hooks.<br>
  40 (5) Flight recorder : start lttd automatically upon GUI trace control stop.<br>
  41 (5) Automatically detect traces with too much processes and disable faulty operations.<br>
  42 (5) Event sequence detector (inspired from regular expressions).<br>
  43 (7) Create a hardware counter viewer (low cost rate counters : L1 cache miss,
  44 page faults, interrupts...). This will be a generalisation of the event rate
  45 view into a view of the evolution of a user definable event field.<br>
  46 <br>
  47 * TO FIX<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
  50 created in addition to the real process itself. Seems to be caused by end of
  51 process life.<br>
  52 (10) Statistics do not take in account the time spent in the mode present at
  53 the beginning of the trace. Example : real time spent in system call on behalf
  54 of process 0.<br>
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  56 <br>
  57 <big>LTT Next Generation Roadmap<small><br>
  58 <br>
  59 * TODO<br>
  60 (3) Have various subbuffer sizes for high and low rate channels.<br>
  61 (3) Change the byte pair "facility, event" id for a short combining the
  62 informatinon.<br>
  63 (4) Add Xen support.<br>
  64         # <A HREF="mailto:Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>">Mathieu Desnoyers</A><br>
  65         # <A HREF="mailto:Parisa Heidari <parisa.heidari@polymtl.ca>">Parisa Heidari</A><br>
  66 (4) efficient dynamic event filtering while recording trace.<br>
  67         % Sensis Corp. <A HREF="mailto:Bish, Tim <Tim.Bish@Sensis.com>">Tim Bish</A><br>
  68 (4) instrument kernel bottom half irqsave, spinlocks, rwlocks, seqlocks, semaphores, mutexes, brlock.<br>
  69 (4) In flight recorder mode, have the low traffic channels saved as normal
  70 tracefiles and high traffic channels being flight recorder.<br>
  71 (4) Try to use my own non LOCK prefixed version of atomic operations : we are
  72 using per-CPU variables, so it should make it possible.<br>
  73 (4) integrate NPTL instrumentation (see
  74 <A HREF="http://nptltracetool.sourceforge.net/">PTT</A>).<br>
  75 (4) Probe calibration kernel module.<br>
  76 (4) Make page faults detect nested fault without nesting 4 times in the page
  77 fault handler.<br>
  78 (4) #IBM Test fix for ppc64 kernel 2.6.9 missing syscall return instrumentation.<br>
  79 (5) Discuss with RelayFS upstream to integrate LTTng modifications.<br>
  80 (5) Move to DebugFS for channel files.<br>
  81 (5) Support CPUs with scalable frequency.<br>
  82 (5) Integrate LTTng and lttd with LKCD.<br>
  83 (7) Integrate periodical dump of perfctr hardware counters.<br>
  84 (8) Integrate periodical dump of SystemTAP computed information.<br>
  85 (8) Integrate SystemTAP logging with LTTng.<br>
  86 (9) Add support for setjmp/longjmp and jump tables instrumentation to
  87 ltt-instrument-functions.<br>
  88 (9) Make ltt-usertrace-fast support internal heartbeat timer.<br>
  89 (3) port LTTng to :<br>
  90 alpha<BR>
  91 user-mode Linux<BR>
  92 Xen<BR>
  93 # IBM<BR>
  94 S/390<BR>
  95 RTLinux<BR>
  96 % Wind River for 2.6.14<BR>
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 100 * TODO (low priority)<br>
 101 enhance RPM packages for lttng kernel<br>
 102 Integrate header generation (genevent) in kernel build system.<br>
 103 Export channels via network sockets instead of writing them to disk.<br>
 104 Export buffers with time constraint for "live" visualisation. Use
 105 ltt_force_switch periodically from a timer to insure slow channels do not
 106 interfere with viewing.<br>
 107 Have an optional round-robin mode to write information into multiple channels
 108 from the same source.<br>
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 110 * Need to be discussed<br>
 111 Use 2.6.14 RelayFS control files.<br>
 112 Drop ltt-module-register and ltt-module-unregister, use exported variables.<br>
 113 drop ltt_filter_control, use functions pointers instead.<br>
 114 Merge facilities headers into one big header.<br>
 115 Change the name of XML files from XML to something else.<br>
 116 Remove ltt-base.c.<br>
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 118 <br>
 119 * lttng patch division (0.5.10+) :<br>
 120 <br>
 121 instrumentation.diff<br>
 122 instrumentation-arm.diff<br>
 123 instrumentation-i386.diff<br>
 124 instrumentation-mips.diff<br>
 125 instrumentation-powerpc.diff<br>
 126 instrumentation-ppc.diff<br>
 127 instrumentation-s390.diff<br>
 128 instrumentation-sh.diff<br>
 129 ltt-facilities-headers.diff<br>
 130 ltt-facilities-loader.diff<br>
 131 ltt-facilities.diff<br>
 132 ltt-relayfs.diff<br>
 133 ltt-core.diff<br>
 134 ltt-build.diff<br>
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 136 <br>
 137 Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
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