On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:00:33AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Does this work like Sun's lockstat?  I.e. can you use it for general
> profiling as well?  Solaris lockstat is incredibly useful...

If you can intuit what the system is doing by looking at the lock events,
yup. Right now all you can really tell is "it's in the kernel, fancy that",
because we have one big lock :-). This is more basic: all I initially wanted
to be able to do is profile contention events.

Andrew