Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:00:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:00:23 -0500 Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.94]:50692 "EHLO probity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:00:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:08:20 +0000 From: John Levon To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] (4/5) improved notifier callback mechanism - read copy update Message-ID: <20021219180820.GA41037@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <1040249652.14364.192.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> <20021219181929.A5265@in.ibm.com> <1040319430.23567.15.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1040319430.23567.15.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18P55p-000PNb-00*HsWCVFONcxs* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 23 On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:37:10AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Thanks, will look into it in more detail. Perhaps figuring out how to do > oprofile without sleeping would be best. You can try, but I don't think you'll get far ... maintaining the necessary "no samples present for exited process" invariant is difficult without sleeping. It would seem better just to force the profiling hooks to use a different API regards john -- "ALL television is children's television." - Richard Adler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/