Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:32:24 -0400
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel profiles anyone?
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:26:55AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 21:35 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > Are there any recent kernel profiles?  I think from an acedemic
> > perspective it'd be nice to see some graphs and numbers nobody
> > understands showing where the longest running code paths in the kernel
> > occur.  It might also be nice for those latency whores (*runs to the
> > back and raises hand*) and those who want to increase overall
> > performance and efficiency; then there'd be a map showing . . .
> > something that only kernel hackers could possibly understand or care about.
> 
oprofile is designed to do exactly this.  just set it up and run the workload
you are interested in.

Regards
Neil


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