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Date:	23 Aug 2006 12:31:05 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...nkl.hpl.hp.com>
Cc:	eranian@....hp.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: sampling format support

Stephane Eranian <eranian@...nkl.hpl.hp.com> writes:

> This files contains the sampling format support.
> 
> Perfmon2 supports an in-kernel sampling buffer for performance
> reasons. Yet to ensure maximum flexibility to applications,
> the formats is which infmration is recorded into the kernel
> buffer is not specified by the interface. Instead it is
> delegated to a kernel plug-in modules called sampling formats.

This seems quote complicated. Who are the users of different sampling formats?

I assume the code would be considerable simpler if you hardcoded 
the perfmon2 format, right?

-Andi
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