Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-20 Thread Joonas Lahtinen
Quoting Michael Sartain (2018-12-20 20:27:19) > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:08:18 +0200 > > Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > >· > > > To me, it seems almost as if folks are too preoccupied with thinking if > > > we somehow can do this through tracepo

Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-20 Thread Michael Sartain
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:08:18 +0200 > Joonas Lahtinen wrote: >· > > To me, it seems almost as if folks are too preoccupied with thinking if > > we somehow can do this through tracepoints, to stop and actually think > > if we should. >· > Re

Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-20 Thread Joonas Lahtinen
Quoting Steven Rostedt (2018-12-19 21:22:57) > On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:08:18 +0200 > Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > > > To me, it seems almost as if folks are too preoccupied with thinking if > > we somehow can do this through tracepoints, to stop and actually think > > if we should. > > Regardless of

Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:08:18 +0200 Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > To me, it seems almost as if folks are too preoccupied with thinking if > we somehow can do this through tracepoints, to stop and actually think > if we should. Regardless of whether it should or shouldn't, one solution to this is to ma

Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-19 Thread Joonas Lahtinen
Quoting Pierre-Loup A. Griffais (2018-12-18 20:14:49) > > On 12/18/18 3:33 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: > > Quoting Michael Sartain (2018-12-18 01:26:03) > >> I'm writing to try and make a case for Tvrtko's "Remove > >> DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig" patch: > >> > >>https://lists.freedeskt

Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-19 Thread Joonas Lahtinen
+ Adding Linus, Dave and Daniel (because by my knowledge, we're beating a dead horse here) Quoting Steven Rostedt (2018-12-18 04:14:17) > On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:26:03 -0700 > Michael Sartain wrote: > > > Ftrace and perf are fantastic, stable, very well known, and documented with > > ecosystems b

Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-18 Thread Pierre-Loup A. Griffais
On 12/17/18 6:14 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:26:03 -0700 Michael Sartain wrote: Ftrace and perf are fantastic, stable, very well known, and documented with ecosystems built around them. AMD already is doing exactly what we are asking for with tracepoints, and Intel has tra

Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-18 Thread Pierre-Loup A. Griffais
On 12/18/18 3:33 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: Quoting Michael Sartain (2018-12-18 01:26:03) I'm writing to try and make a case for Tvrtko's "Remove DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig" patch: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2018-June/169052.html I'd recommend we just remove

Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-18 Thread Chris Wilson
Quoting Michael Sartain (2018-12-18 01:26:03) > I'm writing to try and make a case for Tvrtko's "Remove > DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig" patch: > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2018-June/169052.html I'd recommend we just remove the tracepoints as in the very near fu

Re: [Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:26:03 -0700 Michael Sartain wrote: > Ftrace and perf are fantastic, stable, very well known, and documented with > ecosystems built around them. AMD already is doing exactly what we are asking > for with tracepoints, and Intel has tracepoints that work right now. Please, >

[Intel-gfx] uABI / Removing DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig

2018-12-17 Thread Michael Sartain
I'm writing to try and make a case for Tvrtko's "Remove DRM_I915_LOW_LEVEL_TRACEPOINTS Kconfig" patch: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2018-June/169052.html Including the tracing team maintainers because this conversation intersects with their area. Also Pierre-Loup from Valve