From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
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>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2][RFC] ftrace: function oprofiler
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:20:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081026072041.141b46ec@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225017357.27415.5.camel@twins>
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:35:57 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 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?
yes.
If you are diagnosing "my system suddenly became slow", and if you have
a baseline, a fingerprint like this can be used by less-trained people
to look up the next steps in the diagnostics.
--
Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre
For development, discussion and tips for power savings,
visit http://www.lesswatts.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-26 14:20 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
2008-10-26 13:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-26 14:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-26 14:20 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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