I am saying the kernel can do exact accounting without the LTT, not without
doing exact accounting. LTT is not an alias for exact accounting.
> Don't get me wrong... tracing infrastructure is *really useful* when
> doing performance debugging. I used kitrace a lot for this (see the
> Software Pratices and Experience paper---you can put tracepoints
> anywhere at runtime, but you do so in assembly :-(). LTT seems like a
> nice complementary piece of work and it would be useful infrastructure
> to have, but it looks to me like a debugging tool and not what should
> required to make top/ps work.
Fully agree.
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