From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752068AbXDKKkK (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:40:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752082AbXDKKkK (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:40:10 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38304 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752068AbXDKKkJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:40:09 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: eranian@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:39:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Venki Pallipadi , Adam Belay , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, lenb@kernel.org References: <653FFBB4508B9042B5D43DC9E18836F539ADFB@scsmsx415.amr.corp.intel.com> <20070411001513.GA2975@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20070411052007.GA24056@frankl.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070411052007.GA24056@frankl.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704111239.06259.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The next kernel patch for Perfmon will not make use of the idle notification > anymore on any platform. What do you use instead? I've been actually thinking to add idle notifier support to oprofile to correct for the "perfctr doesn't tick in idle" issue which makes numbers not add up to 100%. A lot of people are currently running idle=poll to work around this and that is very wasteful. -Andi