From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754123AbXGFXjw (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:39:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752467AbXGFXjn (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:39:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45454 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752257AbXGFXjn (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:39:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:38:27 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Chuck Ebbert , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Mathieu Desnoyers , Alexey Dobriyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 10/10] Scheduler profiling - Use immediate values Message-ID: <20070706233827.GC13125@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Adrian Bunk , Chuck Ebbert , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Mathieu Desnoyers , Alexey Dobriyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070703164046.645090494@polymtl.ca> <20070703164516.377240547@polymtl.ca> <20070703181151.GB5800@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <20070703185748.GA4047@Krystal> <20070705132120.8edbc1f3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <468EBEB2.4070605@redhat.com> <20070706232843.GT3492@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070706232843.GT3492@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 01:28:43AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Only if you want to squeeze the last bit of performance out of > _debugging_ functionality. > > You avoid all the pain if you simply don't use debugging functionality > on production systems. I think you're mixing up profiling and debugging. The former is extremely valuable under production systems. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk