Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:19:35 -0500 (EST) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] oprofile: port to the new ring buffer |
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Robert Richter wrote:
> This patch set ports cpu buffers in oprofile to the new ring buffer > provided by the tracing framework. The motivation here is to leave the > pain of implementing ring buffers to others. Oh, no, there are more > advantages. Main reason is the support of different sample sizes that > could be stored in the buffer. Use cases for this are IBS and Cell spu > profiling. Using the new ring buffer ensures valid and complete > samples and allows copying the cpu buffer stateless without knowing > its content. Second it will use generic kernel API and also reduce > code size. And hopefully, there are less bugs. > > The patch set is also available here: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile.git ring_buffer
Robert,
Thanks for doing this! I'll try to take time out this week to review these patches.
-- Steve
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