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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"ak@linux.intel.com" <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] perf: use hrtimer for event multiplexing
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:50:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347461431.15764.49.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPqkBRRS7uz9kt-g8Rjj8K86AE+7U-emqKv1=tqcuRyqEk=Zw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 16:48 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 16:43 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >> The hrtimer_active is used to prevent activating the timer multiple times
> >> in a row.
> >
> > see hrtimer_active(), this should do what you want I think.
> 
> I need something that is true even when the hrtimer is not executing
> the callback handler. I guess that may be the different between
> hrtimer_active() vs. hrtimer_running()?

As the comment states, hrtimer_active() returns true if the timer is
either in the tree (enqueued) or running.

hrtimer_callback_running() is true iff the callback is currently
executing.

hrtimer_queued() is true iff the timer is queued.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-12 14:13 [PATCH v2 0/3] perf: use hrtimer for event multiplexing Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] hrtimer: add hrtimer_init_cpu() Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 14:22   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-12 14:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 14:33     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 14:38       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 14:46         ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 14:49           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 14:51             ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] perf: use hrtimer for event multiplexing Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 14:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 14:43     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 14:44       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 14:48         ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 14:50           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-09-12 15:37       ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 15:49         ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-13 12:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-13 12:20           ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-13 12:26             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-13 12:27               ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-13 12:29                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] perf: add sysfs entry to adjust multiplexing interval per PMU Stephane Eranian

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