Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754515Ab2F1Q3Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:29:16 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:48407 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751888Ab2F1Q3O convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:29:14 -0400 Message-ID: <1340900942.28750.74.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Enabled PEBS event to be exported in a raw format From: Peter Zijlstra To: Stephane Eranian Cc: Feng Tang , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Andi Kleen Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:29:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <1340899250-26803-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com> <1340899974.28750.66.camel@twins> <1340900356.28750.72.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 17 On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 18:27 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > My problem with the script approach is that you may end up > re-inventing a lot of the infrastructure > already in perf in terms of histograming and sorting. I think scripts > are good for dumping > the raw data or very simply analysis. Now I recognize that they are > handy to implement > mahcine specific decoding of the samples. Yeah, I'm no fan of all that script nonsense either. If its worth doing its worth doing properly. -- 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/