From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756785Ab1DLTjg (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:39:36 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:41512 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751690Ab1DLTjf (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:39:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dELELYnBozhJiq845q5UICgP/LSFb6EGDR3ReopN8sQTjn2U0kQfzKUNldlsv2IXnM x0YRqlOhBtWmzzae4eXWnA4TaiBsFEDPSrGHKTv+7V3x+DzoK/VjPteZe+rru8JGPQ2b y6ZS4mQibzpmjV7NWUX/OjSUJhmRbxf1q9iDo= Message-ID: <4DA4AA72.4070904@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:39:30 -0600 From: David Ahern User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.1.9-0.39.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , LKML Subject: Re: adding trace-cmd's plugins to perf References: <4DA12905.2020806@gmail.com> <20110412162245.GB2240@nowhere> <20110412183536.GA20452@ghostprotocols.net> <20110412185104.GA9891@liondog.tnic> <20110412185652.GB20452@ghostprotocols.net> <20110412190150.GC9891@liondog.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20110412190150.GC9891@liondog.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/12/11 13:01, Borislav Petkov wrote: >>> Also, just FYI, I have this RAS daemon patchset which splits perf functionality >>> into different sub-libs, which are more or less topic based: >>> >>> tools/lib/trace/ - all the trace-event* stuff from Steven >>> tools/lib/lk/ - generic enough stuff (git headers, etc) which several tools could use Is this going to contain the option parsing as well? e.g., something tools/kvm is picking up from perf. >>> tools/lib/perf/ - functionality related to perf events >>> >>> Here's the last submission http://marc.info/?l=linux-edac&m=129562244211501&w=2 >>> and I'm currently finishing a new rebase against tip/perf/core. >>> >>> If you're fine with that split I'd suggest I load off my stuff first so >>> that David can continue from there and I can finally stop rebasing like >>> crazy each time perf moves forward. >>> >>> Opinions? Suggestions? >> >> Yeah, David, can you try Borislav's patchset and tell us what you think >> wrt servicing your needs? > > Yeah, but first let me post the latest version - I'll try to do so in > the next couple of days. > > Thanks. > Sure. This is a background task, and I still need to spend time on trace-cmd to understand it. ie. it's not something I expect to do within the next week -- more like within the next month if I get the time. David