sowmini.varadhan at Sun.COM
2006-Sep-26 10:23 UTC
[networking-discuss] Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: DTrace Network Provider
> I think that streams/packet tracing makes the scope of the > Network provider overwhelming (it would to me at least). > > So, I would like to see us make progress on the individual > modules tracing and defer packet tracing as a followup.It remains, however, a hard and critical problem (Eric Boehm''s request here last week is a classic example of what customers and Support Engineers encounter). Prior to FireEngine/Yosemite, attempts were made to solve this problem via STREAMS flow-tracing. Would it be a viable solution to resurrect/build-upon the existing flow-tracing concepts and use sdt on top of that, to provide a first-attempt at this? --Sowmini