Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Christos Zoulas
On Aug 23, 11:57am, t...@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) wrote: -- Subject: Re: Too many PMC implementations | On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 05:09:35PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: | > | > Observing that all the useful profiling is already done with DTrace, we | > can remove complexity from the kerne

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 23/08/2018 à 17:47, Anders Magnusson a écrit : Den 2018-08-23 kl. 17:03, skrev Maxime Villard: Le 23/08/2018 à 16:28, Anders Magnusson a écrit : Den 2018-08-23 kl. 15:53, skrev Maxime Villard: Le 17/08/2018 à 17:42, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : On 17.08.2018 17:13, Maxime Villard wrote: Not

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:17:29AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > > > On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:47 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: > > > I have used it not long ago for vax. Maybe I did have to do some tweaks, > > do not remember, > > but I really want to be able to use kernel profiling on vax. > > > >

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Jason Thorpe
> On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:47 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: > I have used it not long ago for vax. Maybe I did have to do some tweaks, do > not remember, > but I really want to be able to use kernel profiling on vax. > > So, I really oppose removing it and leaving vax without any kernel profiling

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
On 23.08.2018 18:35, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 06:25:56PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> >> As useful I mean the number of commits to the src/ tree. If nothing >> landed, probably nothing was useful. When were the most recent patches >> from gprof or similar? > > This

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 06:25:56PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > As useful I mean the number of commits to the src/ tree. If nothing > landed, probably nothing was useful. When were the most recent patches > from gprof or similar? This is a plainly bogus criterion. After we integrated DTrac

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
On 23.08.2018 17:57, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 05:09:35PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> >> Observing that all the useful profiling is already done with DTrace, we >> can remove complexity from the kernel with negligible cost. > > I'm not sure what to make of this. I

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 05:09:35PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > Observing that all the useful profiling is already done with DTrace, we > can remove complexity from the kernel with negligible cost. I'm not sure what to make of this. I'm trying to come up with a way to make the above statem

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2018-08-23 kl. 17:09, skrev Kamil Rytarowski: On 23.08.2018 16:59, Anders Magnusson wrote: Den 2018-08-23 kl. 16:48, skrev Kamil Rytarowski: On 23.08.2018 16:28, Anders Magnusson wrote: Den 2018-08-23 kl. 15:53, skrev Maxime Villard: Le 17/08/2018 à 17:42, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : On 1

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2018-08-23 kl. 17:03, skrev Maxime Villard: Le 23/08/2018 à 16:28, Anders Magnusson a écrit : Den 2018-08-23 kl. 15:53, skrev Maxime Villard: Le 17/08/2018 à 17:42, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : On 17.08.2018 17:13, Maxime Villard wrote: Note that I'm talking about the kernel gprof, and not t

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
On 23.08.2018 16:59, Anders Magnusson wrote: > Den 2018-08-23 kl. 16:48, skrev Kamil Rytarowski: >> On 23.08.2018 16:28, Anders Magnusson wrote: >>> Den 2018-08-23 kl. 15:53, skrev Maxime Villard: Le 17/08/2018 à 17:42, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : > On 17.08.2018 17:13, Maxime Villard wrote

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 23/08/2018 à 16:28, Anders Magnusson a écrit : Den 2018-08-23 kl. 15:53, skrev Maxime Villard: Le 17/08/2018 à 17:42, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : On 17.08.2018 17:13, Maxime Villard wrote: Note that I'm talking about the kernel gprof, and not the userland gprof. In terms of kernel profiling,

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2018-08-23 kl. 16:48, skrev Kamil Rytarowski: On 23.08.2018 16:28, Anders Magnusson wrote: Den 2018-08-23 kl. 15:53, skrev Maxime Villard: Le 17/08/2018 à 17:42, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : On 17.08.2018 17:13, Maxime Villard wrote: Note that I'm talking about the kernel gprof, and not the

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
On 23.08.2018 16:28, Anders Magnusson wrote: > Den 2018-08-23 kl. 15:53, skrev Maxime Villard: >> Le 17/08/2018 à 17:42, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : >>> On 17.08.2018 17:13, Maxime Villard wrote: Note that I'm talking about the kernel gprof, and not the userland gprof. In terms of ker

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Anders Magnusson
Den 2018-08-23 kl. 15:53, skrev Maxime Villard: Le 17/08/2018 à 17:42, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : On 17.08.2018 17:13, Maxime Villard wrote: Note that I'm talking about the kernel gprof, and not the userland gprof. In terms of kernel profiling, it's not nonsensical to say that since we support

Re: Too many PMC implementations

2018-08-23 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 17/08/2018 à 17:42, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : On 17.08.2018 17:13, Maxime Villard wrote: Note that I'm talking about the kernel gprof, and not the userland gprof. In terms of kernel profiling, it's not nonsensical to say that since we support ARM and x86 in tprof, we can cover 99% of the MI

Re: Finding an available fss device

2018-08-23 Thread J. Hannken-Illjes
> On 22. Aug 2018, at 08:50, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:39:21AM +0200, J. Hannken-Illjes wrote: >>> I applied that to NetBSD-8.0, and it seems to behave much better. >> Good. > > Will you commit and request a pullup? The change is valuable. Sure ... -- J. Hannken-