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Message-Id: <20080226092926.3a72f73b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:29:26 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@...mi.au.dk>,
John Levon <levon@...ementarian.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...x.de, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:02:23 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> > Anton - who has used oprofile to analyse and tune databases, JVMs,
> > compilers and operating systems. Maybe I've been missing out on
> > the killer app for all this time!!!
>
> it's OK if you use it full time and if you are amongst the 0.001% of the
> developer population we call "the best kernel hackers on the planet" ;-)
>
> It sucks badly if you use it occasionally and have to re-learn its
> non-trivial usage and its quirks every time. As it happens, most
> userspace developers are in this second category.
Nobody has in any way demonstrated that this is due to the design or
implementation of oprofile's kernel component.
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