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Re: Too many PMC implementations




> On Aug 17, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Speaking realistically, probably all the recent software-based kernel
> profiling was done with DTrace.

Yah, I suppose I'm okay will killing off kernel GPROF support ... you can essentially do the same-thing-but-better with an on-cpu flame graph generated from dtrace data.  If the lower-tier platforms don't support this properly, the energy should go towards fixing that.

-- thorpej



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