Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753535AbYBWM3u (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:29:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754107AbYBWM3g (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:29:36 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.186]:39380 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751985AbYBWM3f (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:29:35 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=tYfioKuMauc01s4vPZUtoxWWqN3l9sZ9s+1XVQXzBb3/WmSIBiPNGM1dEkFpLrRHKTEOt10qhGvAmiTLBheHkDFXiLd7t4moJfY1tCOEpESLeK7KP5E6jR3e9T6x7/VmybMajxBaA5jSLkFGB2L3qRhgNcCQR1WhrIna1SPDNNc= Message-ID: <84144f020802230429t181f0503r5629658ca39c699b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:29:33 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Ingo Molnar" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Arjan van de Ven" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sandmann@redhat.com, tglx@tglx.de, hpa@zytor.com In-Reply-To: <20080223122222.GA323@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080219123756.6261c13c@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080223001130.d8922136.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <84144f020802230351o24b11282vbb1cecf518d91825@mail.gmail.com> <20080223122222.GA323@elte.hu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6e53fe4381d2617b Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 21 Hi Ingo, On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > As a comparison, here's a session of a newbie developer, meeting > oprofile for the first time in his life (using a fresh package, > oprofile-0.9.3-6.fc8): > > ----------------------> > [ Newbie: WTF, no GUI tool? ] > [ Narrator: we lose 90% of the developers at this point. ] In all fairness, there's a GUI for oprofile too [1] but I don't think it supports call trees as sysprof does which is IMHO the killer feature of the latter. 1. http://labs.o-hand.com/oprofileui/ -- 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/