(CCing the BR.) On Friday 01 February 2008, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:17:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > > * Package name : latencytop > > > Version : 0.3 > > > Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > > > * URL : http://www.latencytop.org/ > > > * License : GPL-2 > > > Description : A tool for developers to visualize system > > > latencies > > > > > > LatencyTOP is a Linux tool for software developers (both kernel and > > > userspace), aimed at identifying where system latency occurs, and > > > what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen. By > > > identifying this, developers can then change the code to avoid the > > > worst latency hiccups. > > > > I wonder if this tool should be packaged separately, or if it would be > > more logical to just package it together with powertop. After all, they > > are fairly similar in purpose and have the same upstream author. > > I wonder if this tool will ben any useful, considering it requires a > patched kernel. Patches have already been included in 2.6.25, so it may require enabling an kernel config option, but will not require patching the kernel.
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