Re: [patch] Enable kernel profiling with stepping of 1

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:38:22PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > and the profiling buffer is half the size of kernel text; 2 insns hash on to
> 
> s/insns/bytes of code/

Yep.. I was speaking in terms of the smallest possible size for a insn.

> 
> > Profiling with step=1 will help us do insn level profiling with better
> > granularity
> 
> I guess this means you want to do insn- or line-wise profiling, rather 
> than the original point of this feature (function-wise).  

Exactly. 

Thanks,
Kiran