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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:50:17 +0530
From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: Re: [patch] Enable kernel profiling with stepping of 1
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:38:22PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > and the profiling buffer is half the size of kernel text; 2 insns hash on to
> 
> s/insns/bytes of code/

Yep.. I was speaking in terms of the smallest possible size for a insn.

> 
> > Profiling with step=1 will help us do insn level profiling with better
> > granularity
> 
> I guess this means you want to do insn- or line-wise profiling, rather 
> than the original point of this feature (function-wise).  

Exactly. 

Thanks,
Kiran
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