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I love Brendan's writeups and scripts, and use them everyday multiple times a day, but he didn't "make Linux performance tools competitive". He's spreading and

by gghh 10y ago

I love Brendan's writeups and scripts, and use them everyday multiple times a day, but he didn't "make Linux performance tools competitive". He's spreading and making available knowledge about perf, ftrace, eBPF that would otherwise remain relegated in Linux kernel development circles. He's also contributing to bcc (a tool in the eBPF ecosystem), but his main merit in my opinion is marketing, with his books and blog (I'm using the term in positive sense).

boomboomsubban 10y ago
The lack of DTrace like tools has long been a criticism of Linux. The entire BPF team deserves a lot of credit for their work, but his decision to highlight this problem and help solve it rather than move to FreeBSD likely got it into 4.9 rather than some kernel in the future.