Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:24:12 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: "Villacis, Juan" <juan.villacis@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, jbarnes@sgi.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.x] additional kernel event notifications
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> The current event notifications used by tools like Oprofile, while quite
> useful, are not sufficient.  The additional event notifications we
> propose can provide a more complete picture for performance tuning on
> Linux, particularly for dynamically generated code (such as found in
> Java).  

Could you please explain why you cant build on top of oprofile? If arch
specific profilers start going in, we are going to have 5 different ways
of doing the same thing.

We really need to work together on this. We for example have a bunch of
ppc64 profiling stuff but throwing that into the kernel to create yet
another profiler is not the answer.

Anton
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