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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] AXFS: axfs_profiling.c
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Jared Hulbert wrote:
>> The profiling code has certainly been useful to you during development,
>> and you should keep that code around for your own work on it,
>> but maybe you should not push that upstream, because regular users
>> are not going to need it.
> 
> Nope.  Profiling is absolutely fundamental to how AXFS works.  Read
> the [PATCH 00/10] thread again.
I agree, the profiling part is the sweet spot. Profiling should be in, 
probably even selectable at runtime as opposed to a config-switch. 
This way we could have it in enterprise distros that would'nt build 
another kernel image for this.