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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf: remove jiffies_interval
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On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 16:29 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Obsolete because superseded by hrtimer based
> multiplexing.

Not entirely, the jiffies_interval allows different PMUs to have
different rotation speeds. Your code doesn't allow this.