LUluu·Jul 15, 2024Submission
KUtrace: Low-overhead Linux kernel tracing facility
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KUtrace
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KUtrace
Low-overhead tracing of all Linux kernel-user transitions, for serious performance analysis. Includes kernel patches, loadable module, and post-processing software. Output is HTML/SVG per-CPU-core timeline that you can pan/zoom down to the nanosecond.
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What it is
Low-overhead tracing of all Linux kernel-user transitions, for serious performance analysis. Includes kernel patches, loadable module, and post-processing software. Output is HTML/SVG per-CPU-core timeline that you can pan/zoom down to the nanosecond.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| May 27 | 2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jun 3 | 2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 10 | 2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 17 | 2024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 24 | 2024-06-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 1 | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8 | 2024-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-15 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 15 | 2024-07-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-22 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sources> ... A profiler won't magically convey the information about what sequence of operations a request is doing under the hood. ...
have a look at kutrace [https://github.com/dicksites/KUtrace]. it does.
In Understanding Software Dynamics [book review]KUtrace: Precisely trace executions on every CPU core
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