> People will want perfom and oprofile in the same kernel, and we'd better
Yes. > allow useage at the same time, so I'd be very much in favour of having That would be nice, but is not imho critical. > just one backend. Especially giving the huge amount of different > performance counters we have to support. It's not that big an issue in my experience -- there aren't new x86 CPUs that often and normally they don't change much between minor revisions. Also at least Intel now has an architected subset of perfctrs which I expect to cover most people's needs. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
