From 6db2f61f39669ad1f0fa23595b94ff22c8fc50d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:28:19 -0400 Subject: PR10524: brag in NEWS --- NEWS | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 77873950..007d89e0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ * What's new +- Memory consumption for scripts involving many uprobes has been + dramatically reduced. + - The preprocessor now supports || and && in the conditions. %( arch == "x86_64" || arch == "ia64" %: ... %) -- cgit From 96fb769cb91ffe7016cd7dc5f97ae8111b7221f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Smith Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:39:11 -0500 Subject: Added blurb about the ring_buffer transport. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 007d89e0..70287a48 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ SYSTEMTAP_RUNTIME, SYSTEMTAP_TAPSET, SYSTEMTAP_DEBUGINFO_PATH - nss and nss-tools are required to use this feature. +- A new experimental transport mechanism, using ftrace's ring_buffer, + has been added. This may become the default transport mechanism in + future versions of systemtap. To test this new transport mechanism, + define 'STP_USE_RING_BUFFER'. + * What's new in version 0.9.9 - Systemwide kernel .function.return (kretprobe) maxactive defaults may -- cgit