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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:56:01 +0100
From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: kernel api for application profiling
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On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 03:28:44PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> And before people ask me: perfctr is not yet in official kernels,
> I'm working on a cleaned up version for 2.5 submission RSN,

This is going to clash head-on with oprofile. However, the two systems
are both useful in their own rights: oprofile isn't useful for
interstitial timings as described above, whereas perfctr isn't really
designed for system profiling.

So I suspect the simplest solution would be to make the config options
for them exclusive. Comments ?

regards
john

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