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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eranian@gmail.com, eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, x86@kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [patch 05/24] perfmon: X86 generic code (x86)
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:42:47 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081127.034247.72331360.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c86c4470811270335p2dbd61ebpe2c584e32d8b2292@mail.gmail.com>

From: "stephane eranian" <eranian@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:35:54 +0100

> I am still wondering how Oprofile handles the case where multiple
> processes or threads access the same file descriptor.

There's only one profiling buffer active on a given cpu,
so it's pure per-cpu value insertion.

In any event I think that NMI profiling is a must, especially
for the kernel.  You get total unusable crap otherwise.  I
just learned this the hard way having gotten an NMI'ish scheme
working on sparc64 just the other day.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-27 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-26  8:42 [patch 05/24] perfmon: X86 generic code (x86) eranian
2008-11-26 11:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-26 12:05   ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-26 12:22     ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-26 12:48       ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-26 13:32     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 13:56       ` stephane eranian
2008-11-26 16:38         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27  9:51           ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 10:56             ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 11:37               ` David Miller
2008-11-27 14:40                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 13:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 14:00   ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-26 21:18     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 21:37       ` stephane eranian
2008-11-26 23:16         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27  9:38           ` stephane eranian
2008-11-26 22:54     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 10:06       ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 10:09         ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 10:29           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 11:31           ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 11:35             ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 11:42               ` David Miller [this message]
2008-11-27 11:49                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 12:38                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 12:31                     ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 12:46                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:32                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 13:37                         ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 13:51                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:50                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 11:52               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-27 12:04                 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 12:16                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-27 12:32               ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 12:28                 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 12:45                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:30                     ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 13:49                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:47                         ` stephane eranian
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-25 21:36 eranian

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