From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757479AbZJFPIb (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:08:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757316AbZJFPIa (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:08:30 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:49410 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756453AbZJFPIa (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:08:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:07:51 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Soeren Sandmann Cc: gnome-announce@gnome.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Announce: Sysprof 1.1.2 CPU profiler for Linux Message-ID: <20091006150751.GA28868@infradead.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 05:46:23PM +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > Sysprof 1.1.2 is now available. This is a development release leading > up to a stable 1.2.0 release. > > Sysprof is a sampling system-wide CPU profiler for Linux. This > version is based on the perf counter interface in 2.6.31 kernels and > will not work with earlier kernels. Btw, what is the plan for the sysprof ftrace plugin? In general we move away from ftrace plugins towards trace events and perf, and if I remember correctly ftrace file format changes caused enough pain for sysprof that it kept shipping it's old hacky kernel module. Is it time to deprectate the sysprof ftrace plugin?