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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: perf: counter and event question
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:26:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261999573.7135.83.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B389391.8050303@klingt.org>

On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 12:16 +0100, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> like it is impossible to sample instructions with a period of 1? 

Pretty much, imagine the cpu getting a trap every cycle.

In order to avoid the machine grinding to a halt, we've implemented a
throttle which defaults to 100k samples/s, anything over that will be
discarted.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-28 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-28 11:16 perf: counter and event question Tim Blechmann
2009-12-28 11:26 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-12-28 12:39   ` Tim Blechmann
2009-12-28 13:03     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 13:09       ` Tim Blechmann
2009-12-28 14:02         ` Peter Zijlstra

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