linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

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Message-ID: <20090611185117.GA27411@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:51:17 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:21:46AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But I note (once more) how _nobody_ has actually been able to accept the 
> fact that oprofile was an abject failure as it was split up. Instead, you 
> all dance around totally irrelevant issues.

I don't think oprofile has been a desaster because of any kind of split,
but because the design has been a failure from day 1.

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