From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751861Ab1ADODH (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:03:07 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:46685 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751211Ab1ADODF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:03:05 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] perf: Add load latency monitoring on Intel Nehalem/Westmere v2 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Lin Ming Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Stephane Eranian , lkml In-Reply-To: <1294142361.2016.131.camel@laptop> References: <1293464397.2695.109.camel@localhost> <1294142361.2016.131.camel@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:03:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1294149804.2016.142.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:59 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Right, so I think I want this in 3 patches, one adding the load-latency > extra reg thing and PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR usage, one adding > PERF_SAMPLE_LATENCY and one adding PERF_SAMPLE_EXTRA, I really dislike > the LATENCY_DATA name since that ties the extra data to the latency > thing, which isn't at all true for other platforms. Also, this wants a 4th patch to be fully mergable, we want to have tools/perf/ support for these things..