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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, ak@linux.intel.com,
	zheng.z.yan@intel.com, robert.richter@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf: use hrtimer for event multiplexing
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:39:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347032350.18408.88.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347028169-1983-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com>

On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 16:29 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> @@ -148,6 +148,15 @@ static LIST_HEAD(pmus);
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(pmus_lock);
>  static struct srcu_struct pmus_srcu;
>  
> +struct perf_cpu_hrtimer {
> +       struct hrtimer hrtimer;
> +       int active;
> +};
> +
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct list_head, rotation_list);
> +
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_cpu_hrtimer, perf_cpu_hrtimer);


How about sticking the hrtimer in perf_cpu_context so you can have a
different rotation interval per PMU ?

Sorta like e9d2b064149ff7ef4acbc65a1b9374ac8b218d3e removed. Stopping
the timer when the PMU isn't over committed should solve the NOHZ
problem I think.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-07 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07 14:29 [PATCH 0/3] perf: use hrtimer for event multiplexing Stephane Eranian
2012-09-07 14:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Stephane Eranian
2012-09-07 15:39   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-09-07 17:03     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-07 19:08       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-07 19:10         ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-07 19:14           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-07 15:42   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-07 14:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf: add sysctl control to adjust multiplexing interval Stephane Eranian
2012-09-07 14:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf: remove jiffies_interval Stephane Eranian
2012-09-07 15:40   ` Peter Zijlstra

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