Hi Pat, Pat Bredenberg wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Eric Saxe wrote: > >> >> I'm thinking the cpu_change_speed and cstate_transition DTrace probes >> (which are already in the PowerTop repo) are generally useful. So i'm >> interested in putting them back to Nevada. Thoughts? Moving forward, >> this could eliminate the PowerTop's dependence on the kernel. >> >> Thoughts? > Just my $0.02 from the more user-end side of things, I'd think that'd > be beneficial to any replacement tool in the works for mpstat(1) as we > move from a CPU-centric way of doing things to a more > core/socket-centric. I have nothing specific in mind, of course. :)
Just to clarify, when you say "that'd be beneficial", are you referring to using DTrace probes vs kstats? ...or did you mean something else? Thanks, -Eric
