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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: eranian@gmail.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>, Carl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>,
	Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com>,
	Philip Mucci <mucci@eecs.utk.edu>,
	Dan Terpstra <terpstra@eecs.utk.edu>,
	perfmon2-devel <perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: perf_counters issue with enable_on_exec
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:27:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19091.5100.328432.510132@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251121618.7538.262.camel@twins>

Peter Zijlstra writes:

> 2. enable_on_exec only works on leaders, Paul, was that intended?

I think I thought that would be sufficient, but I guess it would be
cleaner if it also worked on non-leaders.

> 3. the scale stuff seems broken
> 
> # perf stat -e cycles -e instructions --repeat 10 true
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'true' (10 runs):
> 
>         2612124  cycles                     ( +-   1.327% )
>         1870479  instructions             #      0.716 IPC     ( +-   0.132% )
> 
>     0.003743155  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   1.203% )
> 
> # ./test-enable_on_exec true
>              2651600 PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES 1111509 1111509 2651600.000000
>              1832720 PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS 839395242 1111509 1384043177.264637
> 
> Paul, would a counter's time start running when its 'enabled' but part
> of a non-runnable group?

No, it shouldn't.  If it does it's a bug.

Paul.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-24 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 13:49 perf_counters issue with enable_on_exec stephane eranian
2009-08-24 13:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-24 15:44   ` stephane eranian
2009-08-24 16:03     ` stephane eranian
2009-08-24 16:06       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-24 16:16         ` stephane eranian
2009-08-24 22:31     ` Paul Mackerras
2009-08-25  5:17     ` [PATCH] perf_counter: Start counting time enabled when group leader gets enabled Paul Mackerras
2009-08-25  7:21       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-25  7:36       ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " tip-bot for Paul Mackerras
2009-08-24 22:27   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2009-08-24 21:35 ` perf_counters issue with enable_on_exec Paul Mackerras
2009-08-24 22:30   ` stephane eranian

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