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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-perf-use." <linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Weird instruction profiling
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:33:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E5214B.5060408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj8bvzqn.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com>

On 2/18/15 11:30 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:

>> I think Andi mentioned this to me last year -- that instruction
>> profiling was no longer reliable.
>
> It never was.

Why is that? What about profiling with other hardware counters?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-18 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-18  9:57 Weird instruction profiling Brendan Gregg
2015-02-18 18:30 ` Andi Kleen
2015-02-18 23:33   ` David Ahern [this message]
2015-02-18 23:38     ` Andi Kleen
2015-02-18 23:46       ` David Ahern
2015-02-20 19:04         ` Brendan Gregg

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