Re: Too many PMC implementations

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

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 ARM and x86 in tprof, we can cover 99% of the MI parts of
> > > whatever architecture. From then on, being able to profile the 
> > > kernel on
> > > other architectures has very little interest.
> >
> > Speaking realistically, probably all the recent software-based kernel
> > profiling was done with DTrace.
>
> Yes. So I will proceed.
>
> Note that the removal of the kernel gprof implies the removal of kgmon.
Just checking:  How will it work for ports like vax?
When searching for bottlenecks I normally use gprof/kgmon.  I don't know 
anything about DTrace, hence the question.

-- Ragge