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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [8/7] oprofile - dcookies need to use u32
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:33:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ok, everything applied.

Thanks !

> Quite frankly, as long as the vtune user-level tools are all proprietary,
> I don't really care all that much about vtune compatibility, but if it
> turns out to be easy and convenient we might as well try to be polite
> about it (and apparently they've sorted out all the issues with their
> kernel-level code, and are happy to do that stuff all GPL'd, but since
> it's pretty useless without the tools..).

From my discussions with the vtune people, their kernel-level stuff has
almost exactly the same needs as oprofile. So I think they have
everything they need already (and I had to go to the effort of a total
rewrite, I think they should as well ...)

In fact I don't see a reason why they couldn't just use the oprofile
code directly anyway, and just have the propietary goop read from
/dev/oprofile/buffer. Especially if that encourages them to port the
PEBS support etc.

regards
john

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