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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Victor Jimenez <victor.javier@bsc.es>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sampling instruction pointer on PPC
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:00:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4FB92B.9080106@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4FACFA.6080209@bsc.es>

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On 3/1/12 10:08 AM, Victor Jimenez wrote:
> I am trying to sample instruction pointer along time on a Power7 system.
> I know that there are accurate mechanisms to do so in Intel processors
> (e.g., PEBS and Branch Trace Store).
>
> Is it possible to do something similar in Power7? Will the samples be
> accurate? I am worried that significant delays (skids) may appear.
>
> Thank you,
> Victor
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       reply	other threads:[~2012-03-01 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4F4FACFA.6080209@bsc.es>
2012-03-01 18:00 ` David Ahern [this message]
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2012-03-02 19:21   ` Sampling instruction pointer on PPC Victor Jimenez

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