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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Taylor Andrews <andrewst@vmware.com>,
	"linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about Perf's handling of in-use performance counters
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:33:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161028163305.GD26852@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161028162844.GJ3142@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

> But the thing is still racy, and therefore useless.

At least the Hypervisor case is not racy. The Hypervisor always
uses that counter.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-21 21:59 Question about Perf's handling of in-use performance counters Taylor Andrews
2016-10-27 18:11 ` Andi Kleen
2016-10-27 21:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-28 13:53     ` Andi Kleen
2016-10-28 14:03       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-28 15:40         ` Andi Kleen
2016-10-28 16:28           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-28 16:33             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-10-28 18:28               ` Taylor Andrews
2016-11-30 15:44                 ` Taylor Andrews
2016-11-30 18:17                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-07 22:25               ` Taylor Andrews

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