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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf: Walk through the relevant events only
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:39:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267781969.16716.55.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267772426-5944-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 08:00 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Each time a trace event triggers, we walk through the entire
> list of events from the active contexts to find the perf events
> that match the current one.
> 
> This is wasteful. To solve this, we maintain a per cpu list of
> the active perf events for each running trace events and we
> directly commit to these.

Right, so this seems a little trace specific. I once thought about using
a hash table to do this for all software events. It also keeps it all
nicely inside perf_event.[ch].




  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05  7:00 [PATCH 1/2] perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace events Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-05  7:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: Walk through the relevant events only Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-05  9:39   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-03-05 17:03     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-05 17:20       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-05 17:33         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-05 17:39           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-05 17:46             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-08 18:35     ` [RFC PATCH] perf: Store relevant events in a hlist Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-10 19:34       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-10 20:33         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-10 20:46           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-10 21:04             ` Frederic Weisbecker

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