[erlang-questions] erl_tracer, trace_status and pids

[Loïc Hoguin]

Hello,

I am optimizing an erl_tracer tracer NIF. Can you give light on the 
following questions? I tried to look into the source but want to double 
check my understanding.

* trace_status is always called on enabled/3, not on enabled_*/3

* when you use enabled_*/3 and trace_*/5 functions for everything, the 
trace/5 function will never be called

* trace_status is always called before any other enabled_*/3 so I should 
be fine just doing nothing in enabled_*/3, right? I'm only checking that 
the tracer processes are still alive anyway.

Basically if you could shed light on the circumstances around 
trace_status that would help a lot for optimizing this. :-)

Another question, I have a pool of tracer processes and want to send the 
events to one of them depending on the pid (all events of a pid gets to 
the same tracer process). Is this a valid solution?

nth = (tracee.pid >> 4) % len;

This gives me the number of the tracer I will send the message to.

Thanks!

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Loïc Hoguin
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