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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 09:35:53 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Carlos R. Mafra<crmafra2@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A few examples of how 'perf' can be used, from an e-mail by
> > Ingo Molnar http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/4/346.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >
> > This "patch" is my way of _suggesting_ some "documentation by examples"
> > of what 'perf' can do to the guys who can really write it :-)
> 
> I was also looking for a perf "cookbook" and Ingo suggested we should
> put this stuff on the kernel.org wiki:
> 
> http://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> How about just putting the email there?

Would be excellent. Carlos, do you have time to format those 
examples over into the wiki and send a patch with an URL to the 
wiki?

	Ingo