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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 11:08:47 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, kernel-team@...com, Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@...omium.org>, Martin Liska <mliska@...e.cz>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, "Nam T . Nguyen" <namnguyen@...omium.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Simon Que <sque@...omium.org>, Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/37] perf/core improvements and fixes Em Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 04:21:44PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu: > On 27/05/15 15:35, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > Em Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:38:47AM +0200, Ingo Molnar escreveu: > >> So this stuff is user and developer hostile at the moment. We can push this > >> towards Linus only if this becomes _much_ more user and developer friendly. Near > >> zero documentation and near zero comments in the code don't cut it really. > > Adrian, can you try to address this further, please? > > Something like a handholding session, so that we don't have to dig thru > > all the csets or patch series cover letters, telling: > > > > 1. What hardware one has to have to be able to test it > > > > 2. First command to use > > > > 3. What will be generated, how much space (a lot?) it will use on the > > perf.data file, etc. > > > > 5. What commands have to be used on this perf.data file and what to > > expect from it. > > > > I.e. a HOWTO that starts with a as short as possible description on how > > to use it for the very first time, for people never exposed to Intel PT > > but that can benefit from using it. > > I sent the patches again a week ago, but perhaps no one noticed. They are here: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143290658028132 > > Comments welcome :-) I saw it, was just busy with other stuff and was waiting for other people to chime in, will look for that 'handholding session' and also for a broadwell machine were I can try to follow it. - Arnaldo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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