Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf kmem: Add more functions and show more statistics

Ingo Molnar
2009-11-24T07:47:12Z

* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > Certainly we can postpone it, as long as there's rough strategic
> > consensus on the way forward. I'd hate to have two overlapping core
> > kernel facilities and friction between the groups pursuing them and
> > constant distraction from having two targets.
>
> Sure, like I said, I think "kmem perf" is the way forward. The only
> reason we did kmemtrace userspace out-of-tree was because there was no
> perf (or ftrace!) at the time and there wasn't much interest in
> putting userspace tools in the tree.
>
> I hope that counts as a "rough strategic consensus" :-)

it does :-)

Ingo