Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support

More than a decade ago the DTrace tracing framework from Sun Microsystems was one of the long sought features from Solaris desired by Linux developers. Oracle ended up porting DTrace to Linux over the years but without too much fanfare outside of Oracle Linux especially since the advent of (e)BPF on Linux and other tracing/debugging open-source advancements. With the recent DTrace 2.0, it's now built atop the BPF engine and other upstream kernel tracing features on Linux. Gentoo Linux today announced their support for DTrace 2.0...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-DTrace-2.0

[skeevy420]

Phoronix: Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support

On the Gentoo Wiki is also more DTrace information for those interested.

I'm kind of surprised that out of all those people making the 146 comments that there wasn't a single Yay, Kick Ass, Fuck Oracle, Slowlaris, or people wondering if other distributions will pick it up since it uses eBPF like the SCX schedulers.

[unwind-protect]

I'm more curious about comparisons between eBPF (which I didn't use yet) and DTrace.

[XenHat]

Yay! I haven't had a use for this yet, I'm just now learning how to use perf and hotspot, but dTrace seems really cool!