From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9026B0062 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:53:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:53:30 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] perf: Add 'perf kmem' tool Message-ID: <20091123175330.GA29396@elte.hu> References: <20091120081440.GA19778@elte.hu> <84144f020911200019p4978c8e8tc593334d974ee5ff@mail.gmail.com> <20091120083053.GB19778@elte.hu> <4B0657A4.2040606@cs.helsinki.fi> <20091120090134.GD19778@elte.hu> <84144f020911200115g14cfa3b5k959f8751001b8b35@mail.gmail.com> <20091120101305.GA16781@elte.hu> <4B067007.8070607@cs.helsinki.fi> <20091120104920.GA12634@elte.hu> <1258987585.22249.1036.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1258987585.22249.1036.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Pekka Enberg , Li Zefan , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Frederic Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu , LKML , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: * Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:49 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > You're right, of course. With kmemtrace-user, I just copied the raw > > > trace file from /sys/kernel. I wonder if that's a good enough reason > > > to keep kmemtrace bits around? > > > > Not really. If then a light-weight recording app could be made but > > i'd rather wait for actual usecases to pop up. > > Hmm, but isn't this an actual use case? Not really - perf record is pretty lightweight and you'd want perf for hands-on stats anyway. Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org