Re: [PATCH v2][RFC] ftrace: function oprofiler

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sun Oct 26 2008 - 06:36:16 EST


On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> This is a function profiler to count the number of times a function is hit.

I have to ask, _why_?

It seems like a nice enough gimmick, but is this information actually
useful?
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