Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759382AbYLPPzs (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:55:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758846AbYLPPxq (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:53:46 -0500 Received: from koef.zs64.net ([212.12.50.230]:57658 "EHLO koef.zs64.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758835AbYLPPxo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:53:44 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 305 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:53:44 EST Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:46:55 -0500 From: Martin Cracauer To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , "David S. Miller" , Robert Richter , Eric Dumazet , Stephane Eranian , Paul Mackerras , Peter Anvin , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [Perfctr-devel] [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v4 Message-ID: <20081216154655.GB32787@cons.org> References: <20081214212829.GA9435@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081214212829.GA9435@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1277 Lines: 30 Ingo Molnar wrote on Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:28:29PM +0100: > We are pleased to announce the v4 release of our performance counters > subsystem implementation. The kernel changes can be picked up from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git perfcounters/core > > (also in the master branch. There's also a kernel patch attached > below.) > > The biggest new feature in this release is the implementation of > "performance counter inheritance" for the per task counters: the ability > to extend performance counters to cover the execution of child tasks > too, transparently and automatically - following them to other CPUs. Does this come with a PAPI frontend or is one planned? I picked the old perfctr mainly because I need PAPI. Outside-process measurement doesn't do for my application, I need subdivisions in my code. Thanks Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ -- 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/