Re: 2.5.59-dcl2

From: Stephen Hemminger (shemminger@osdl.org)
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 11:53:55 EST


On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 04:35, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> writes:
>
> > > . Lockless gettimeofday (Andi Kleen, me)
>
> The original algorithm actually came from Andrea Arcangeli,
> I just ported it from vsyscalls to do_gettimeofday.
>
> > > . Performance monitoring counters for x86 (Mikael Pettersson)
>
> Isn't that slightly redundant with oprofile?
> They have different capabilities, but there is still much overlap.

They are different. My point was to have both and let the performance
team at OSDL try both, and comment on what works/doesn't work

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