From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2][RFC] ftrace: function oprofiler
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:35:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225017357.27415.5.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0810252049020.7650@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> This is a function profiler to count the number of times a function is hit.
I have to ask, _why_?
It seems like a nice enough gimmick, but is this information actually
useful?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-26 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-25 5:55 [PATCH][RFC] ftrace: function oprofiler Steven Rostedt
2008-10-25 10:51 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-25 13:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-26 0:55 ` [PATCH v2][RFC] " Steven Rostedt
2008-10-26 10:35 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-10-26 13:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-26 14:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-26 14:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
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