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From: jamie@jamieiles.com (Jamie Iles)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: ARM perf events spin locks
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:58:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101130105856.GC4398@pulham.picochip.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004101cb907b$16f911b0$44eb3510$@deacon@arm.com>

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:41:04AM -0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Hi Will,
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > I think we should convert the spinlocks in the ARM perf events code to raw
> > spinlocks for realtime. Should we wait for your split set to get merged first
> > before doing this?
> 
> Since this is a logically separate change, I think we're better off waiting
> until the split stuff has been merged. As for the raw spinlocks, by realtime
> do you mean PREEMPT_RT? Also, do we actually *need* raw spinlocks in the perf
> code?
Yes, I meant PREEMPT_RT. It won't stop working without raw spinlocks but I'm 
not convinced that we couldn't lose too much accuracy with normal spinlocks. I 
am however willing to be convinced otherwise!

Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-30 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-30 10:08 ARM perf events spin locks Jamie Iles
2010-11-30 10:41 ` Will Deacon
2010-11-30 10:58   ` Jamie Iles [this message]
2010-11-30 13:49     ` Will Deacon
2010-11-30 13:54       ` Jamie Iles
2010-11-30 13:59         ` Will Deacon
2010-11-30 14:31           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-11-30 14:46             ` Will Deacon

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