From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 10/10] Scheduler profiling - Use immediate values
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 02:10:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070707001008.GV3492@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070706233827.GC13125@redhat.com>
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:38:27PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.
profiling = debugging of performance problems
My words were perhaps a bit sloppy, but profiling isn't part of normal
operation and if people use a separate kernel for such purposes we don't
need infrastructure for reducing performance penalties of enabled debug
options.
> Dave
cu
Adrian
--
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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-07 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-03 16:40 [patch 00/10] Immediate Values Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 01/10] Immediate values - Global modules list and module mutex Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 02/10] Immediate Value - Architecture Independent Code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 03/10] Immediate Values - Non Optimized Architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 04/10] Immediate Value - Add kconfig menus Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 05/10] Immediate Values - kprobe header fix Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 06/10] Immediate Value - i386 Optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 18:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-03 19:16 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-03 20:37 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-03 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-03 23:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-03 20:43 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 07/10] Immediate Value - PowerPC Optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 08/10] Immediate Value - Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 09/10] F00F bug fixup for i386 - use immediate values Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-04 20:43 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-03 16:40 ` [patch 10/10] Scheduler profiling - Use " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-03 18:11 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-03 18:57 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-04 14:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-04 20:31 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-05 20:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-05 20:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-05 20:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-06 11:44 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-06 17:50 ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-06 20:03 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-06 20:57 ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-06 21:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-07 1:50 ` [patch 10/10] *Tests* " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-07 6:08 ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-11 5:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-06 22:14 ` [patch 10/10] " Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-06 23:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-06 23:38 ` Dave Jones
2007-07-07 0:10 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-07-07 15:45 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-07-07 17:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-07 17:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-07-07 17:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-07 17:55 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-07-06 23:43 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-07 2:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-07 2:35 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-07 4:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-07 5:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-07-04 20:35 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-07-04 22:41 ` Andi Kleen
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2007-07-05 15:23 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-07-05 15:46 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-06 21:08 ` Adrian Bunk
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