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> > [...] This linux-specific pmda exposes the hardware performance
> > counters available on recent x86 systems. This pmda has been running
> > on our cluster the last 10 months without problems (I've been
> > meaning to submit this for inclusion for a while!). [...]
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> Thank you for posting. As you probably know, we have recently started
> expending effort in a very similar direction, so will need to compare
> & contrast the two to figure out how to proceed.
Please be aware that the wording of this sentence could be interpreted as
the "we" (who recently started expending effort...) "will need to compare
and contrast..." before anything can progress in terms of including this
new PMDA with the rest of PCP - which is not the case.
In reality, no comparing and contrasting is *needed* at all (but it would
be a good idea, for each implementation to learn from the other). PCP has
an architecture that will allow both PMDAs to exist side-by-side in the git
tree and in the binary packages that are shipped, of course.
I'm a bit snowed under atm, but I am expecting to take a closer look next
week at both these PMDAs (with the expectation that both will be merged at
some point).
I note with great delight that you already have several test programs, Joe.
Can you describe how to build & run those - ideally we'd be including those
in the pcp-testsuite, then many more people will be running those tests all
the time. Martins has some experience doing this, it might help to talk
directly with him too.
cheers.
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Nathan
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