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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Pierre Tardy <tardyp@gmail.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@newoldbits.com>,
	linux-trace-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Frank Eigler <fche@redhat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH [0/4] perf: clean-up of power events API
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:17:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAF19E7.3070103@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101008083819.GA22385@elte.hu>

  On 10/8/2010 1:38 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> The fundamental thing about tracing/instrumentation is that there are no
> deep ABI needs: it's all about analyzing development kernels (and a few
> select versions that get the enterprise treatment) but otherwise the
> half-life of this kind of information is very short.
>
> So we dont want to tie ourselves down with excessive ABIs.
>

ok I'll start working on a second mechanism then to export information 
that applications need ;-(
it'll look a lot like tracing I suppose ;-(


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-08 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-04 15:20 PATCH [0/4] perf: clean-up of power events API Jean Pihet
2010-10-04 15:20 ` [PATCH 1/4] perf: cleanup " Jean Pihet
2010-10-04 15:20 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf: add OMAP support for the new power events Jean Pihet
2010-10-04 19:45   ` Thomas Renninger
2010-10-04 15:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf: add calls to suspend trace point Jean Pihet
2010-10-04 22:52   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-10-04 15:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf: provide a DEPRECTAED power trace API to user space Jean Pihet
2010-10-04 16:10   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-10-04 16:47     ` Jean Pihet
2010-10-06 21:34 ` PATCH [0/4] perf: clean-up of power events API Thomas Renninger
2010-10-07 15:08   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-10-07 15:23     ` Pierre Tardy
2010-10-07 15:45       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-07 15:58       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-10-07 16:10         ` Pierre Tardy
2010-10-08  8:14         ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-08  8:38           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-08 13:17             ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2010-10-08 13:41               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-10-08 16:22                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-10-08 17:21                   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-08 17:49                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-10-08 18:11                       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-08 17:32                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-10-09  6:28                 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-09  8:14                   ` Pierre Tardy
2010-10-09 18:36                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-09 21:15                       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-09 23:20                         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-10  1:39                           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-10  6:41                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-10 15:11                               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-18 12:15                       ` Jean Pihet
2010-10-09 16:19                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-10-09 21:34                     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-10 12:19                     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-19 11:31                       ` Thomas Renninger
2010-10-19 11:45                         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-19 11:47                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-19 11:52                             ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-19 13:27                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-10-19 13:50                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-19 13:52                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-10-19 14:51                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-07 15:45     ` Jean Pihet
2010-10-07 15:49     ` Thomas Renninger
2010-10-07 15:56       ` Jean Pihet

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