From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: me@sillymon.ch (Silvan Jegen) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:11:19 +0100 Subject: New member In-Reply-To: <9380.1422243950@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <100098.1422210715@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20150125214324.GA17688@ozymandias.uchicago.edu> <9380.1422243950@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: <58a58aa2d5fa75a1d641b8cba84e358f@sillymon.ch> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Am 2015-01-26 04:45, schrieb Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:29:00 -0800, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > >> what's wrong with ftrace? but seriously, you know what newcomers >> might get some value out of doing if they want to contribute? writing >> some really, really good documentation or tutorials. > > If somebody were to do a really good "Top 25 perf/ftrace > tricks/recipes" > for the best incantations for common use cases, they'd have a hard time > buying themselves a beer at a gathering of Linux geeks. ;) Actually, I was interested in writing something along these lines but in practice, Brendan Gregg (who is amazing) probably has you covered. http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html Cheers, Silvan