From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@frankl.hpl.hp.com>
Cc: eranian@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: sampling format support
Date: 23 Aug 2006 12:31:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p737j0z7nh2.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608230805.k7N85v1s000408@frankl.hpl.hp.com>
Stephane Eranian <eranian@frankl.hpl.hp.com> writes:
> This files contains the sampling format support.
>
> Perfmon2 supports an in-kernel sampling buffer for performance
> reasons. Yet to ensure maximum flexibility to applications,
> the formats is which infmration is recorded into the kernel
> buffer is not specified by the interface. Instead it is
> delegated to a kernel plug-in modules called sampling formats.
This seems quote complicated. Who are the users of different sampling formats?
I assume the code would be considerable simpler if you hardcoded
the perfmon2 format, right?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-23 8:05 Stephane Eranian
2006-08-23 10:31 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-23 10:45 ` Stephane Eranian
2006-08-23 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01 16:09 ` Stephane Eranian
2006-09-01 18:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01 22:15 ` Stephane Eranian
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