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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:53:57 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 02:22:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I hate to re-enter this thread, but this "niche use case" is 
> > > exactly what LWP is designed for. [...]
> > 
> > It's not the only usecase that it can be used in, and that is 
> > what matters to me.
> 
> The really sad thing about it is, that this only matters to 
> you. [...]

What the hell are you talking about? Precise, skid-free profiles 
matter to pretty much *every* single developer profiling 
user-space code on AMD CPUs. That you are not representing them 
properly in this thread qualifies you, not me.

Thanks,

	Ingo