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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: eranian@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	paulus@samba.org, davem@davemloft.net, fweisbec@gmail.com,
	perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net, eranian@gmail.com,
	robert.richter@amd.com, acme@redhat.com,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] perf_events: add support for per-cpu per-cgroup monitoring (v3)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:27:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285140479.2275.893.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100922042354.GG6676@balbir.in.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 09:53 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> Yes, a task can belong to multiple subsystems, hence multiple cgroups.
> Ideally we'd want to use pid + subsystem

Apparently we create a perf subsystem, and we only care about that. So
pid will uniquely identify a cgroup, since for each subsystem a task can
only belong to one cgroup.

> > One thing we could do is pass this cgroup identifier in the pid field
> > and use PERF_FLAG_CGROUP or something. Currently the syscall signature
> > uses pid_t, but I think we can safely change that to int.
> 
> Or union it and overload the field to contain either pid_t or fd of the cgroup

Its not a field, its an argument.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-09 13:05 [RFC PATCH 0/2] perf_events: add support for per-cpu per-cgroup monitoring (v3) Stephane Eranian
2010-09-21  9:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-21  9:43   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-21 11:48     ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-21 12:42       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-21 13:38         ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-21 14:03           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-21 16:17             ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-21 16:27               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-21 16:33                 ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-22  4:34                 ` Balbir Singh
2010-09-22  7:25                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-22  4:23   ` Balbir Singh
2010-09-22  7:27     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-09-22  9:18       ` Balbir Singh
2010-09-22 10:26         ` Stephane Eranian
2010-09-25  9:51           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-28  9:23             ` Stephane Eranian

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