Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 May 2013 10:10:17 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/8] perf tools: Add '.' as part of the event 'name' token |
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > 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.
If that libpfm reference library moved to tools/lib/ like tools/lib/traceevents/ then that would be a nice, useful solution indeed.
Thanks,
Ingo
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