Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753740AbZAUT5X (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:57:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752592AbZAUT4y (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:56:54 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:36647 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752397AbZAUT4x (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:56:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:56:23 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Randy Dunlap Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Stephane Eranian , Eric Dumazet , Robert Richter , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Anvin , Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , "David S. Miller" , Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: [announce] Performance Counters for Linux, v6 Message-ID: <20090121195623.GA31013@elte.hu> References: <20090121185021.GA8852@elte.hu> <497778E3.1020502@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <497778E3.1020502@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1839 Lines: 49 * Randy Dunlap wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > We are pleased to announce version 6 of our performance counters subsystem > > implementation. The shortlog, diffstat and the combo patch can be found > > below. The combo patch against latest -git (2.6.29-rc2) can be also found > > at: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/perfcounters/perfcounters-v6-v2.6.29-rc2.patch > > > > It's also available in tip/master at: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README > > > > There are many changes in the v6 release: > > > > - PowerPC performance counters support from Paul Mackerras, for POWER6 > > and for the PPC970 family. > > > > - ioctl API to disable/enable individual counters and groups without > > closing their fd. This can be useful for libraries, ad-hoc > > instrumentation and PAPI support. > > > > - 'pinned' and 'exclusive' counter attributes - for those > > applications that want to influence counter scheduling explicitly. > > > > - The 'perfstat' utility (ex 'timec') has been updated: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/perfcounters/perfstat.c > > > > - 'kerneltop' (easy-to-use text mode NMI profiler) has been updated: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/perfcounters/kerneltop.c > > BTW, this kerneltop has nothing to do with that other one?? > > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kerneltop/ heh, didnt know about that one - there's no connection other than the name :-) The project seems somewhat stale but indeed similar in purpose. Can rename to kerneltop2 i guess. Ingo -- 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/