Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:34:59 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [announce] Performance Counters for Linux, v6 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > We are pleased to announce version 6 of our performance counters subsystem > implementation. The shortlog, diffstat and the combo patch can be found > below. The combo patch against latest -git (2.6.29-rc2) can be also found > at: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/perfcounters/perfcounters-v6-v2.6.29-rc2.patch > > It's also available in tip/master at: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README > > There are many changes in the v6 release: > > - PowerPC performance counters support from Paul Mackerras, for POWER6 > and for the PPC970 family. > > - ioctl API to disable/enable individual counters and groups without > closing their fd. This can be useful for libraries, ad-hoc > instrumentation and PAPI support. > > - 'pinned' and 'exclusive' counter attributes - for those > applications that want to influence counter scheduling explicitly. > > - The 'perfstat' utility (ex 'timec') has been updated: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/perfcounters/perfstat.c > > - 'kerneltop' (easy-to-use text mode NMI profiler) has been updated: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/perfcounters/kerneltop.c
BTW, this kerneltop has nothing to do with that other one??
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kerneltop/
Thanks, -- ~Randy
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