Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:37 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> From: Soren Sandmann <sandmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool
> 
> The sysprof tool is a very easy to use GUI tool to find out where
> userspace is spending CPU time. See
> http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/sysprof/
> for more information and screenshots on this tool.
> 
> Sysprof needs a 200 line kernel module to do it's work, this
> module puts some simple profiling data into debugfs.

What is the added value over oprofile?

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