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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <lin@ming.vg>, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3 v2] perf: Implement Nehalem uncore pmu
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:24:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290770652.2145.128.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimN6_v6VibsNU70kV_QUnF4Fj0=M=Akp8aASE-3@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 09:18 +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:

> In the perf_event model, given that any one of the 4 cores can be used
> to program uncore events, you have no choice but to broadcast to all
> 4 cores. Each has to demultiplex and figure out which of its counters
> have overflowed.

Not really, you can redirect all these events to the first online cpu of
the node.

You can re-write event->cpu in pmu::event_init(), and register cpu
hotplug notifiers to migrate the state around.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-26 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-21 12:01 [RFC PATCH 2/3 v2] perf: Implement Nehalem uncore pmu Lin Ming
2010-11-21 12:46 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-21 14:04   ` Lin Ming
2010-11-21 17:00     ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-21 17:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-23 10:00       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-25  0:24         ` Lin Ming
2010-11-25  6:09           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-25  6:27             ` Lin Ming
2010-11-25  8:48             ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-25 18:20             ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-25 21:10               ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-24  9:55       ` Lin Ming
2010-11-23 10:17 ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-24  1:33   ` Lin Ming
2010-11-26  5:15   ` Lin Ming
2010-11-26  8:18     ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-26  8:29       ` Lin Ming
2010-11-26  8:33       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-26  9:00         ` Lin Ming
2010-11-26 10:06           ` Stephane Eranian
2010-12-01  3:21             ` Lin Ming
2010-12-01 13:04               ` Stephane Eranian
2010-12-02  5:26                 ` Lin Ming
2010-11-26 11:24       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-11-26 11:25         ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-26 11:36           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-26 11:41             ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-26 16:25               ` Lin Ming
2010-12-01  3:28             ` Lin Ming
2010-12-01 11:37               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 14:08               ` Andi Kleen
2010-12-01 14:18                 ` Peter Zijlstra

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