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SubjectRe: Perf can't deal with many tracepoints
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 05:16:18PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> Tracing is supposed to be low overhead. Forcing people to decode
> things like this at the trace point, may take more code and cause
> the trace data to be larger, making it slower than necessary.
>
> If there isn't a good reason to keep perf stupid, then making it
> smarter could be attractive.

Agreed. Although one argument against making perf smarter is that
certain things such as the dev_t MAJOR/MINOR split is an internal
abstraction that could potentially vary from kernel to kernel.

And the question is whether perf really should be so different that if
you boot a different kernel, you had better have the right perf
installed.

- Ted


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