Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:02:01 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, torvalds@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace
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Hi, 

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:31:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> >
> > Do you have any objections to merging FUSE in mainline kernel?
> 
> I was planning on sending FUSE into Linus in a week or two.  That and
> cpusets are the notable features which are 2.6.12 candidates.
> 
> - crashdump seems permanently not-quite-ready
> 
> - perfctr works fine, but is rather deadlocked because it is
>   similar-to-but-different-from ia64's perfmon, and might not be suitable
>   for ppc64 (although things have gone quiet on the latter front).

I once asked Mikael about using PMC's from kernel-space, he told me it wouldnt
be too hard to make them usable via kernel-space through perfctr.

Is perfmon's API useable to kernel users? 

That sounds like a good point in favour of a given implementation, no?
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