Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:47:03 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
       Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
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       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf kmem: Add more functions and show more
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* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > Certainly we can postpone it, as long as there's rough strategic
> > consensus on the way forward. I'd hate to have two overlapping core
> > kernel facilities and friction between the groups pursuing them and
> > constant distraction from having two targets.
> 
> Sure, like I said, I think "kmem perf" is the way forward. The only 
> reason we did kmemtrace userspace out-of-tree was because there was no 
> perf (or ftrace!) at the time and there wasn't much interest in 
> putting userspace tools in the tree.
> 
> I hope that counts as a "rough strategic consensus" :-)

it does :-)

	Ingo
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