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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler"
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 18:33:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337790834.9783.30.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tip-ab0cce560ef177bdc7a8f73e9962be9d829a7b2c@git.kernel.org>

On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 09:09 -0700, tip-bot for Jiri Olsa wrote:
>  > I rather liked we could do away with both that black-spot and
>  > clean up the code a little, but apparently people rely on it.
> 
Ingo noted that inherited counters already are active over the context
switch (due to the lazy switch optimization) and thus profile the
context switch cost.

Regular per-task counters not including this are therefore not
consistent.

So it would be good to find a way to fix the tracing fallout
differently. A well..


      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-23 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-21  8:06 [RFC][BUG] Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler" Jiri Olsa
2012-05-22 11:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-23 11:13   ` [PATCH] " Jiri Olsa
2012-05-23 16:09     ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-05-23 16:33       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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