Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] perf_event: introduce 'inject' event and get HZ

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:21 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> > 'inject' event is a very useful feature and it's suggested by Ingo
> > [ See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/28/31 ]
> 
> I really dislike the name, event injection to me would be like a write() 
> interface where you provide the actual event data to be stuffed in the 
> output stream.
> 
> This just seems like a very weird way of getting data out. A kind of like 
> sysconf() but done very strange.

What kind of API would you suggest?

	Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/