Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/24] perfmon3: introduction | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:58:22 -0700 |
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On Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:39 am stephane eranian wrote: > As you know, I have been involved with this project for quite some time > now. I have been through many ups and downs trying to get this merged > upstream. So rest assured of my full determination to bring this to the > point of success.
I've been following this at a high level since using perfmon on ia64 several years ago. I have to say I'm impressed that you've put up with all the review and code churn (which to me often seemed arbitrary) without burning out.
Honestly I think it sucks that perfmonN isn't upstream yet supporting all the various architectures you've been working with. You've obviously proven to be a much more responsive and end-user focused maintainer than several of the other fly by night profiling infrastructures we currently have in the kernel (the long abandoned oprofile and perfctr come to mind).
As I mentioned at KS, I think it's about time we had a single point of contact for profiling in the kernel, to avoid the massive functional duplication we have today and make sure some kind of code sharing occurs; seems to me you'd be a good candidate for that sort of job.
But regardless, I think it's about time this got merged. Linus? Andrew?
Thanks, Jesse
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