On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 09:26:32PM +0530, Hari Bathini wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > On Wednesday 18 January 2017 07:56 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 07:47:22PM +0530, Hari Bathini wrote: > >>With the advert of container technologies like docker, that depend > >>on namespaces for isolation, there is a need for tracing support for > >>namespaces. This patch introduces new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event > >>for tracing based on namespaces related info. > >This fails to mention the whole namespace of namespaces issue Eric > > IIUC, Eric wanted to have device info saved for each namespace separately > to avoid the need for a namespace of namespaces in future. > > >brought up. Where are we on that, and or why isn't it required? > > > I did address that in v4 and haven't changed it in v5. > I am not sure if it needs any mentioning in the changelog..
I would certainly have liked mention of the issue and its (non) solution. It shows we thought about it and will help our older selves remember.
