Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:08:19 +0200 (EET) | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vmevent: Use 'struct vmevent_attr' for vmevent_fd() ABI |
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > Sorry for hijacking this thread, but speaking of big > changes. Are there any plans or ideas to add other methods > of sampling, i.e. something not timer-based?
Yes and no.
Linux already has non-timer based "vm events" via tracepoints. There's absolutely no need to reinvent the wheel so we should integrate with perf more closely.
The biggest open question is whether or not a new syscall is needed for configuring memory thresholds and such.
Pekka
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