Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11T18:46:35Z

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, David Newall wrote:
>
> While I'm still unable to help noticing things, nobody seems to have
> presented an argument that user-space and kernel-side will need to be
> developed together.

Well, I tried to give two reasons in my reply to Martin (it's there
somewhere in cyberspace, a couple of minutes ago). Basically timeliness
(kernel features vs taking advantage of them) and co-development (there
always seems to be a huge impedance mis-match between user-level
developers and kernel developers).

Linus