From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
"robert.richter@amd.com" <robert.richter@amd.com>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
"paulus@samba.org" <paulus@samba.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [DRAFT PATCH 2/3] perf: Implement Nehalem uncore pmu
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:28:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288898929.2039.78.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=GVVWxOpZ9Gorn4_r2tASAqOV5+BT7o92xrwJJ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 17:59 +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> I think using uncore PMU to measure per-thread is pretty much useless.
> Maybe it should not even be allowed. There is no way you can correlate
> the counts you're getting to a place in your program. Or put differently,
> sampling in per-thread mode using uncore is useless.
Right, per-task uncore event should not be allowed. I think it as simple
as setting pmu::task_ctx_nr = perf_invalid_context.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-02 7:28 Lin Ming
2010-11-02 14:53 ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-02 15:33 ` Lin Ming
2010-11-02 16:59 ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-04 19:28 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-11-05 1:30 ` Lin Ming
2010-11-08 12:20 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-09 5:01 ` Lin Ming
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