Re: [PATCH 2.6.x] additional kernel event notifications

Anton Blanchard
2003-09-20T17:28:36Z

> The current event notifications used by tools like Oprofile, while quite
> useful, are not sufficient. The additional event notifications we
> propose can provide a more complete picture for performance tuning on
> Linux, particularly for dynamically generated code (such as found in
> Java).

Could you please explain why you cant build on top of oprofile? If arch
specific profilers start going in, we are going to have 5 different ways
of doing the same thing.

We really need to work together on this. We for example have a bunch of
ppc64 profiling stuff but throwing that into the kernel to create yet
another profiler is not the answer.

Anton