Welcome to the new apitrace mailing list

Jose Fonseca jfonseca at vmware.com
Tue Aug 23 06:28:16 PDT 2011


(BCC'ing several folks who had contacted me privately about apitrace before).

----- Original Message -----
> I've just created a new mailing list for discussion of the apitrace
> tool. To send messages to the list, send mail to:
> 
> 	apitrace at lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> The initial membership of the consists of José and Zack, (who have
> contributed the bulk of the code), as well as myself and a few
> coworkers
> who are interested in contributing to apitrace. Obviously, feel free
> to
> invite anyone else, (such as the handful of people who have made 1 or
> 2
> code contributions already).
> 
> If you'd like to invite new people to join the list, send them to:
> 
> 	http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/apitrace
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> -Carl


Hi Carl,


I'm glad you and others have found apitrace useful.  And thanks for taking the initiative of creating the mailing list.  Interest on apitrace appears to be growing, and having a shared/archived forum for our discussions was indeed overdue.


I look forward to hearing what ideas you have.  There are many ways to make apitrace even more useful, but apitrace has been something me and Zack developed mostly on free time, or as bug hunting required, so features/fixes have been done whenever there is a itch to scratch.  Having more help is definitely appreciated.


FYI, the enhancements/issues that I'm aware are in mostly tracked in https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace/issues or  https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace/blob/master/TODO.markdown


In terms of recent/planned work:

- I've been working on better user array tracing by integrating into OS-specific virtual memory interfaces (virtual-memory-regions branch).

- Zack's been working on speeding up tracing by: moving (de)compression to a separate thread, using snappy instead of gzip, and only do file sync/flushes inside a sighandler (compression and threaded-trace   branches)

- Liu Aleaxander is working on patches to measure cpu/gpu times (which I didn't had time to review and might be worth to re-send to this list).

Jose


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