Re: [patch] oprofile for ppc

Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org)
07 Mar 2003 11:13:24 +0100

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:29, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> This is basic timer profiling for ppc, tested on the
> 2.5.62 linuxppc kernel. It's a port of the ppc64 code.

I'm sure I missed something... but I fail to see the the
interest in profiling based on sampling the instruction ptr
on a 100 Hz basis. This is way to slow to give any useful
results imho

Ben.

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