Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 May 2013 20:56:37 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/8] perf tools: Add '.' as part of the event 'name' token |
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> I meant to add that I think it would be more productive if we (you and I) were > to work on the library to extend it with external text-based event tables that > could be used by perf either directly or thru the libpfm4 interface.
That would be very useful indeed.. I think we talked about this before. Also wasn't there some vendor support for this idea as well?
I think we want a format that is relatively simple to parse and human readable (which excludes XML on both counts ;-).
The main objection of using libpfm4 has always been that its primarily something else. It also does the event listing thing, but that's only a small part of it.
But if we can split out that part and use it in both projects that would be best I think.
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