From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: colin <colin@realtek.com.tw>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Does oProfile support 4KE now?
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:10:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051116161031.GH3229@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006c01c5ea83$c7cec780$106215ac@realtek.com.tw>
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:00:16PM +0800, colin wrote:
> >From the CVS of oProfile
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/oprofile/oprofile/events/mips/, I
> donot see 4KE in it.
The 4K processors don't implement performance counters which are required
for any serious use of Oprofile. Lacking performance counters there is
always the fallback option of using the timer interrupt but of course
that means you won't be able to take advantage of much of Oprofile's
fancyness.
Ralf
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2005-11-16 8:00 Does oProfile support 4KE now? colin
2005-11-16 8:00 ` colin
2005-11-16 16:10 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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