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    SubjectRe: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news
    David,

    On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 05:08:43AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
    >
    > Instead of blabbering further about this topic, I decided to put my
    > code where my mouth is and spent the weekend porting the perfmon2
    > kernel bits, and the user bits (libpfm and pfmon) to sparc64.
    >

    I appreciate your effort. I am glad to see that the interface
    and implementation survived yet another architecture. I think at this
    point ARM is the only major architecture missing. In anycase, I would
    be happy to integrate your sparc64 patches.

    > As a result I've found that perfmon2 is quite nice and allows
    > incredibly useful and powerful tools to be written. The syscalls
    > aren't that bad and really I see not reason to block it's inclusion.
    >

    As I said earlier, I am not opposed to changing the syscalls. I have
    proposed a few schemes to address the issue of versioning. If vectors
    arguments are problematic, we can go with single register/call.

    I think there are other areas where perfmon2 could benefit from the
    help of the LKML developers. I will post a list shortly.

    > I rescind all of my earlier objections, let's merge this soon :-)

    Thanks.

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    -Stephane
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