Re: [PATCH] trace power_frequency events on the correct cpu (for Intel x86 CPUs)

Thomas Renninger
2010-03-18T20:43:33Z

On Wednesday 17 March 2010 05:41:38 pm Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 3/17/2010 9:36, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 March 2010 17:40:18 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >> On 3/16/2010 7:50, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> >>> Still, as this is totally broken:
> >>> - by design -> only one of a dozen cpufreq drivers is supported
> >>
> >> the one I care about is supported.
> >
> > And that's the problem, before it's not removed, you do not care to
> > provide/suggest a proper solution that could fit others as well.
>
> why don't you provide the others then?
Is it possible somehow to provide a kind of wrapper/backup function:
trace_power_frequency_cpu(POWER_PSTATE, frequency, cpu);
or another trace interface with eventually some more overhead?
Then it should be easy to support all drivers.
Otherwise you'll for example miss the pcc driver which supports
latest/upcoming Intel CPUs and which does IO based switching which needs not
to run on the cpu that gets switched.

Thomas