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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Harald Servat <harald.servat@bsc.es>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Information regarding the perf tool
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:48:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131031164801.GY29695@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52727B0C.5040402@bsc.es>

>   In fact, I expected that for each entry into the PEBS a handler
> would be executed, but Intel documentations points that to use PEBS
> the tool (here perf) needs to allocate space for multiple PEBS
> entries, so the when the handler is invoked there may be multiple
> entries in the buffer, which makes things a little more obscure.

perf always uses threshold 1 for the PEBS buffer.

But yes there is some delay until the handler executes, and the
time stamp is only computed in the handler.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-31 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-22 16:19 Information regarding the perf tool Harald Servat
2013-10-23 12:47 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-23 13:51   ` Harald Servat
2013-10-31 15:45   ` Harald Servat
2013-10-31 16:39     ` David Ahern
2013-10-31 17:23       ` Harald Servat
2013-10-31 18:22         ` David Ahern
2013-11-04 17:26           ` Harald Servat
2013-11-04 17:53             ` David Ahern
2013-11-04 18:02               ` Pawel Moll
2013-12-12  0:56             ` David Ahern
2013-12-12  8:47               ` Harald Servat
2014-01-09 12:11                 ` Harald Servat
2013-10-31 16:48     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2013-10-31 16:57       ` Harald Servat

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