From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751991Ab1LRP3I (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:29:08 -0500 Received: from server102.greatnet.de ([83.133.97.2]:45066 "EHLO server102.greatnet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751606Ab1LRP3H (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:29:07 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 412 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:29:06 EST To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [RFC 4/5] x86, perf: implements lwp-perf-integration (rc1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:22:13 +0100 From: Benjamin Block Cc: Hans Rosenfeld , , , , , , , , , , Benjamin Block Reply-To: bebl@mageta.org In-Reply-To: <20111218080443.GB4144@elte.hu> References: <20111216160757.GL665@escobedo.osrc.amd.com> <1324051943-21112-1-git-send-email-hans.rosenfeld@amd.com> <1324051943-21112-4-git-send-email-hans.rosenfeld@amd.com> <20111218080443.GB4144@elte.hu> Message-ID: User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3-stable Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:04:43 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > >> From: Benjamin Block >> >> Implements a basic integration of LWP into perf. Permits a way >> to create a perf-event that will be backed by LWP. The PMU >> creates the required structures and userspace-memories. The >> PMU also collects the samples from the ring-buffer, but as >> there is currently no interrupt- and overflow-implementation, >> they are not reported (TODO). > > Ok, this is a step in the right direction - once the threshold > IRQ flow control mechanism is implemented we are looking at > something that might be mergeable. Any ETA on those bits? > The threshold-interrupt is already integrated with patch 5 of this patch-set. Maybe I wrote the descriptions a little misleading. Sry for that. :) best regards, - Benjamin