Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754188AbZAUVQp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:16:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752140AbZAUVQg (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:16:36 -0500 Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:38858 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751546AbZAUVQf (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:16:35 -0500 Message-ID: <49779041.6080804@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:14:41 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Randy Dunlap , 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 References: <20090121185021.GA8852@elte.hu> <497778E3.1020502@oracle.com> <20090121195623.GA31013@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090121195623.GA31013@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt706.oracle.com [141.146.40.84] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.49779046.01B5:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1968 Lines: 53 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * 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. Yes, it's stale. I plan to update it sometime this year. :) I don't care if you rename it or not. -- ~Randy -- 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/