This presentation shows alternative way of dumping kernel internal data like processes, files, maps and possible many others with really simple interface - reading a file. It will also describe design, implementation and usage of base iterators together with planned usage of iterators in perf tool to speed up task collection on big servers.
Jiri works for RedHat full time on Linux as kernel generalist engineer in Brno office, Czech Republicech Republic. He currently divides his work time between upstream perf work and maintaining RHEL perf.
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