On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 10:22:26 -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:59:15PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote: >> Hi Don, >> >> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:36:54 -0400, Don Zickus wrote: >> > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> >> > >> > This is the start of a new perf tool that will collect information about >> > memory accesses and analyse it to find things like hot cachelines, etc. >> >> So why not integrating this into existing 'perf mem' command if it's all >> about analyzing memory accesses? > > Our expectations were different. We expeted to do system-wide analysis > with loads and stores. With 'perf mem' you didn't have the ability to > anlayze both load and stores at the same time.
But it's very simple to change perf mem to work with the both IMHO. > > In all my private conversations with Stephane, Arnalado and Jiri, it was > never brought up. We had just assumed that is made more sense to keep it > separate. Well, I'm not sure ;-) Yes, the c2c is a complex tool which might deserve an own command, but the functionality is very similar and I guess there's something to share between them. Thanks, Namhyung -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
