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Re: tap types

From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
To: "Chen, Brad" <brad dot chen at intel dot com>
Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:53:11 -0500
Subject: Re: tap types
References: <75EC4D5486CAC247B84AAAA6F96AA558039D731E@orsmsx402.amr.corp.intel.com>

Hi -

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:34:54AM -0800, Chen, Brad wrote:
> [...]
> I can also imagine some useful taps based (at least conceptually) 
> on resources rather than control flow, such as:
> 	- mbuf low-water mark
> 	- memory low-water mark
> [...]

Sounds like a way of giving a convenient probe point name but actually
referring to that set of points in the kernel code that detects the
particular condition.  So more abstractly, this is a kind of mapping
from one probe point coordinate system to another.

- FChE

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