Re: [PATCH 1/8] perf tools: Add '.' as part of the event 'name' token

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri May 03 2013 - 14:58:36 EST


> I meant to add that I think it would be more productive if we (you and I) were
> to work on the library to extend it with external text-based event tables that
> could be used by perf either directly or thru the libpfm4 interface.

That would be very useful indeed.. I think we talked about this before. Also
wasn't there some vendor support for this idea as well?

I think we want a format that is relatively simple to parse and human readable
(which excludes XML on both counts ;-).

The main objection of using libpfm4 has always been that its primarily
something else. It also does the event listing thing, but that's only a small
part of it.

But if we can split out that part and use it in both projects that would be
best I think.
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