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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"ming.m.lin@intel.com" <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
	"ak@linux.intel.com" <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_events: fix and improve x86 event scheduling
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:12:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321279937.1421.18.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPqkBSyYjM7V8cy--WRBHJ8o9TU9WUD9mGE1E5HntYdm2BHyw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 13:55 +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> I have been talking with co-workers experts in operational research
> about our problem. They all pointed to me to the max flow algorithm from
> Ford-Fulkerson (search for it on Wikipedia). I think it solves the complexity
> and recursion problems. My understanding is that the complexity is also
> more under control. 

How would you apply this algorithm to the problem at hand? I'm probably
missing the obvious thing here, but if we want the flow to be the number
of assigned counter then we end up with nodes being the various
permutations of assignments or so, which isn't helpful since that'd be
n! nodes.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-14 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-07 11:01 [PATCH] perf_events: fix and improve x86 event scheduling Stephane Eranian
2011-11-07 11:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 12:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 13:52   ` Stephane Eranian
2011-11-07 14:56     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-10 14:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-10 15:09   ` Stephane Eranian
2011-11-10 16:41     ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-10 16:59       ` Stephane Eranian
2011-11-10 17:13         ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-10 16:59     ` Robert Richter
2011-11-10 18:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-10 18:03 ` Robert Richter
2011-11-10 18:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-10 18:52   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-11 14:29     ` Robert Richter
2011-11-14 17:51       ` [PATCH v3 0/2] perf, x86: handle overlapping counters Robert Richter
2011-11-14 17:51         ` [PATCH v3 1/2] perf, x86: Implement event scheduler helper functions Robert Richter
2011-11-16 16:02           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-16 19:23             ` Robert Richter
2011-11-14 17:51         ` [PATCH v3 2/2] perf, x86: Fix event scheduler for constraints with overlapping counters Robert Richter
2011-11-14 12:55   ` [PATCH] perf_events: fix and improve x86 event scheduling Stephane Eranian
2011-11-14 14:12     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-11-14 14:26       ` Stephane Eranian
2011-11-14 16:00         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-14 17:39           ` Stephane Eranian
2011-11-14 21:43             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-16 10:28               ` Stephane Eranian
2011-11-14 22:16             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-16 10:06               ` Stephane Eranian

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