Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] perf_event: introduce 'inject' event and get HZ

Ingo Molnar
2009-12-30T09:28:48Z

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:21 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> > 'inject' event is a very useful feature and it's suggested by Ingo
> > [ See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/28/31 ]
>
> I really dislike the name, event injection to me would be like a write()
> interface where you provide the actual event data to be stuffed in the
> output stream.
>
> This just seems like a very weird way of getting data out. A kind of like
> sysconf() but done very strange.

What kind of API would you suggest?

Ingo