linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

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Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:29:33 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sandmann@...hat.com, tglx@...x.de,
	hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

Hi Ingo,

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>  As a comparison, here's a session of a newbie developer, meeting
>  oprofile for the first time in his life (using a fresh package,
>  oprofile-0.9.3-6.fc8):
>
>   ---------------------->
>   [ Newbie: WTF, no GUI tool? ]
>   [ Narrator: we lose 90% of the developers at this point. ]

In all fairness, there's a GUI for oprofile too [1] but I don't think
it supports call trees as sysprof does which is IMHO the killer
feature of the latter.

  1. http://labs.o-hand.com/oprofileui/
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