linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: add average time in function to function profiler

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Message-Id: <20090327091507.f133257e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:15:07 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: add average time in function to function
 profiler

Hi Steve,

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:07:39 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> 
> Show the average time in the function (Time / Hit)

Just wondering why we need to do this in the kernel ... there is already
enough information for a user to figure these averages out.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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