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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Understanding timestamps in perf.data
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 11:00:12 -0600
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On 9/2/15 11:00 AM, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, David Ahern wrote:
>> The counter values are not relevant for profiling. They are programmed to
>> rollover and generate an NMI which causes the sample to be taken.
>
> They might not be relevant for profiling, but some people use the perf
> counters for other tasks.

Dennis was asking about profiling.