Re: 2.5.59-dcl2

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 07:55:00 EST


Andi Kleen writes:
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> writes:
>
> > > . Lockless gettimeofday (Andi Kleen, me)
>
> The original algorithm actually came from Andrea Arcangeli,
> I just ported it from vsyscalls to do_gettimeofday.
>
> > > . Performance monitoring counters for x86 (Mikael Pettersson)
>
> Isn't that slightly redundant with oprofile?
> They have different capabilities, but there is still much overlap.

They're _completely_ different. The overlap, if any, is miniscule. Trust me :-)
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