From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932460AbVLVNuW (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:50:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932477AbVLVNuW (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:50:22 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:47497 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932460AbVLVNuV (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:50:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:46:44 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Truong, Dan" Cc: stephane.eranian@hp.com, perfmon@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: quick overview of the perfmon2 interface Message-Id: <20051222054644.0b9da029.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3C87FFF91369A242B9C9147F8BD0908A02C69459@cacexc04.americas.cpqcorp.net> References: <3C87FFF91369A242B9C9147F8BD0908A02C69459@cacexc04.americas.cpqcorp.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.8 (GTK+ 2.8.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Truong, Dan" wrote: > > The PMU is becoming a standard commodity. Once Perfmon is > "the" Linux interface, all the tools can align on it and > coexist, push their R&D forward, and more importantly become > fully productized for businesses usage. > The apparently-extreme flexibility of the perfmon interfaces would tend to militate against that, actually. It'd become better productised if it had one interface and stuck to it. (I haven't processed Stephane's reply yet - will get there)