Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:44:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:44:37 -0500 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:6029 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:44:36 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.5.59-dcl2 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <1043794298.10153.241.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <1043798822.10150.318.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Open Source Devlopment Lab Message-Id: <1043859235.10150.322.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 29 Jan 2003 08:53:55 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 04:35, Andi Kleen wrote: > Stephen Hemminger writes: > > > > . Lockless gettimeofday (Andi Kleen, me) > > The original algorithm actually came from Andrea Arcangeli, > I just ported it from vsyscalls to do_gettimeofday. > > > > . Performance monitoring counters for x86 (Mikael Pettersson) > > Isn't that slightly redundant with oprofile? > They have different capabilities, but there is still much overlap. They are different. My point was to have both and let the performance team at OSDL try both, and comment on what works/doesn't work - 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/