On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 11:05 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Now, the tables in perfmon's user-land libpfm that describe the > mapping from abstract events to event-selector values and the > constraints on what events can be counted together come to nearly > 29,000 lines of code just for the IBM 64-bit powerpc processors. > > Your API condemns us to adding all that bloat to the kernel, plus the > code to use those tables. Since you need those tables and that code anyway, and in a solid reliable way, what is the objection of carrying it in the kernel? Furthermore, is there a good technical reason these cpus are so complicated to use? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
