From: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Dan Terpstra <terpstra@eecs.utk.edu>,
Philip Mucci <mucci@eecs.utk.edu>,
Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>, Carl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] perf_events: support for uncore a.k.a. nest units
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:39:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B672DEE.8000804@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264840979.24455.51.camel@laptop>
On 1/30/2010 12:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 15:05 -0800, Corey Ashford wrote:
>> So you'd read the id from the sysfs topology tree, and then pass that id to the
>> interface? That's an interesting approach that eliminates the need to pass a
>> string pmu path to the kernel.
>
> No, the attr.pmu_id would reflect the location in the tree (pci
> location, or spu number), the pmu id reported would identify the kind of
> pmu driver used for that particular device.
>
> I realized this confusion after sending but didn't clarify, we should
> come up with a good alternative name for either (or both) uses.
>
Ok, just so I'm clear here, is attr.pmu_id a (char *) or some sort of encoded
bit field?
- Corey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-01 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-19 19:41 [RFC] perf_events: support for uncore a.k.a. nest units Corey Ashford
2010-01-20 0:44 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-20 1:49 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-20 9:35 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-20 19:28 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-20 13:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-20 21:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-20 23:23 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-21 7:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-01-21 19:13 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-21 19:28 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-27 10:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-01-27 19:50 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-28 10:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-28 18:00 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-28 19:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-28 19:44 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-28 22:08 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-29 9:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-29 23:05 ` Corey Ashford
2010-01-30 8:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-01 19:39 ` Corey Ashford [this message]
2010-02-01 19:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-21 8:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-21 8:47 ` stephane eranian
2010-01-21 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-21 9:16 ` stephane eranian
2010-01-21 9:43 ` stephane eranian
[not found] ` <d3f22a1003290213x7d7904an59d50eb6a8616133@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-30 7:42 ` Lin Ming
2010-03-30 16:49 ` Corey Ashford
2010-03-30 17:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-30 22:12 ` Corey Ashford
2010-03-31 14:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-31 14:13 ` stephane eranian
2010-03-31 15:49 ` Maynard Johnson
2010-03-31 17:50 ` Corey Ashford
2010-04-15 21:16 ` Gary.Mohr
2010-04-16 13:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-19 9:08 ` Lin Ming
2010-04-19 9:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-20 11:55 ` Lin Ming
2010-04-20 12:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-21 8:08 ` Lin Ming
2010-04-21 8:32 ` stephane eranian
2010-04-21 8:39 ` Lin Ming
2010-04-21 8:44 ` stephane eranian
2010-04-21 9:42 ` Lin Ming
2010-04-21 9:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-21 22:12 ` Lin Ming
2010-04-21 14:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-21 22:38 ` Lin Ming
2010-04-21 14:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-30 21:28 ` stephane eranian
2010-03-30 23:11 ` Corey Ashford
2010-03-31 13:43 ` stephane eranian
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