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> - oprofile had a user interface that I simply didn't understand. As I > remember it, I had to know about performance counters and how to > translate those into binary masks This all hasn't been true for a very long while. > Contrast with sysprof, where you > - insert the module modprobe oprofile > - hit the start button opcontrol --start --vmlinux=/boot/vmlinux > - do the thing you want to profile > - hit the profile button opcontrol --stop opreport -l > and you get data presented in a way that is just a whole lot more > useful than the flat text files generated by oprofile. Not *that* may be very true, and your GUI indeed looks very very promising. Elsewhere you note regarding removing your sysprof.o code: > and I still think so, but it's a fairly substantial amount of work to > get rid of 296 lines of code. You'll find this work orders of magnitude easier than convincing people that we need yet another profiling system in the kernel. So I urge you, keep the cool gui but adapt it to oprofile. I'm sure John will be more than willing to work with you to make sure oprofile supports/will support everything you need. Ok? -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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