Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753463AbYBZFPw (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:15:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751136AbYBZFPk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:15:40 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:36297 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750898AbYBZFPk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:15:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:13:07 -0600 From: Anton Blanchard To: Soeren Sandmann Cc: John Levon , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@tglx.de, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool Message-ID: <20080226051307.GC17772@kryten> References: <20080219123756.6261c13c@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080223001130.d8922136.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080223113724.GB31304@elte.hu> <20080223135335.GA28464@totally.trollied.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 15 > It was only later I tried oprofile and found it not only much more > difficult to use, but also much less useful when I did get it to work. This surprises me. Can you please elaborate on why oprofile is "much less useful" than sysprof? Anton - who has used oprofile to analyse and tune databases, JVMs, compilers and operating systems. Maybe I've been missing out on the killer app for all this time!!! -- 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/