linux-kernel - Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

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Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:40:27 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Philip Mucci <mucci@...utk.edu>,
	eranian@....hp.com, William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Perfmon <perfmon@...ali.hpl.hp.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	perfmon2-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	OSPAT devel <ospat-devel@...utk.edu>,
	papi list <ptools-perfapi@...utk.edu>
Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:24:36 +1100 Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> wrote:

> Andrew Morton writes:
> 
> > I was hoping that after the round of release-and-review which Stephane,
> > Andi and I did about twelve months ago that we were on track to merge the
> > perfmon codebase as-offered.  But now it turns out that the sentiment is
> > that the code simply has too many bells-and-whistles to be acceptable.
> 
> Whose sentiment?

Andi and hch, maybe others I've forgotten about.

> I've had a bit of a look at it today together with David Gibson.  Our
> impression is that the latest version is a lot cleaner and simpler
> than it used to be.  I'm also reading Stephane's technical report
> which describes the interface, and whilst I'm only part-way through
> it, I haven't seen anything yet which strikes me as unnecessary or
> overly complicated.

Yes, that's quite possible.  I don't know how up-to-date people's
knowledge is.  I know I haven't looked seriously at the code in around
twelve months.

Let's get it on the wires as outlined and take a look at it all.
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