Re: [RESEND][PATCH] mm: vmstats: tlb flush counters

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Mon Jul 22 2013 - 12:59:56 EST


On 07/22/2013 03:06 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Btw., would be nice to also integrate these VM counters into perf as well,
> as an instrumentation variant/option.
>
> It could be done in an almost zero overhead fashion using jump-labels I
> think.
>
> [ Just in case someone is bored to death and is looking for an interesting
> side project ;-) ]

I'd actually been thinking about making them in to tracepoints, but the
tracepoint macros seem to create #include messes if you try to use them
in very common headers.

Agree it would be an interesting side project, though. :)
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