Phil,

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:56:51AM +0100, Philip J. Mucci wrote:
> Well, there goes PAPI support for Perfmon2 with the upcoming PAPI 3.5
> release. :-(
> 
> Stefane, could you please keep the old snapshot of PFM around for PAPI
> users sake. 

I could keep the 2.6.18 snapshot + minor updates.

> 
> Why don't they make useful suggestions, like being able to declare the
> sample buffer outside of the create/load context call or removing the
> load/create pair altogether. These changes maybe LKML friendly, but they
> do not make programming the API any more flexible or robust.

Could you develop a bit more on those two points? What would it buy you?
I am not sure I understand 'remove create/load'. How would you declare
you need the PMU resource?


> 
> Argh. Oh well, whatever they say, as long as they accept the damn thing
> in the kernel.
> 
That's why I made the changes. The key to me is that there is no loss
of functionalities.

-- 
-Stephane
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