Re: Announce: Sysprof 1.0 -- a sampling, systemwide Linux profiler

[bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>]

> - oprofile had a user interface that I simply didn't understand. As I
>   remember it, I had to know about performance counters and how to
>   translate those into binary masks

This all hasn't been true for a very long while.

> Contrast with sysprof, where you
>         - insert the module

modprobe oprofile

>         - hit the start button

opcontrol --start --vmlinux=/boot/vmlinux

>         - do the thing you want to profile
>         - hit the profile button

opcontrol --stop
opreport -l

> and you get data presented in a way that is just a whole lot more
> useful than the flat text files generated by oprofile.

Not *that* may be very true, and your GUI indeed looks very very promising.
Elsewhere you note regarding removing your sysprof.o code:

> and I still think so, but it's a fairly substantial amount of work to
> get rid of 296 lines of code.

You'll find this work orders of magnitude easier than convincing people that
we need yet another profiling system in the kernel.

So I urge you, keep the cool gui but adapt it to oprofile. I'm sure John
will be more than willing to work with you to make sure oprofile
supports/will support everything you need.

Ok?

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