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

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