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

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Message-Id: <1244747158.27363.59.camel@violet>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:05:58 +0200
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.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

Hi Linus,

> > What I'm saying is that this doesn't sound like something that needs
> > user-space in lock-step with kernel.
> 
> Give it a rest.
> 
> If that's true, then in a year or two we can just split it up already.
> 
> 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.

so your whole reasoning is based on the fact that oprofile was a
horrible failure. All the other projects/subsystems that manage this
perfectly successful without breaking API/ABI abruptly and emerging
slowly when things change don't count. Stop dancing around oprofile so
much. It makes you dizzy ;)

Regards

Marcel


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