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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, paulus@samba.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	eranian@googlemail.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com,
	robert.richter@amd.com, arjan@infradead.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] [Announcement] Performance Counters for Linux
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:23:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081210102335.GA30942@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081210102819.GF23556@one.firstfloor.org>

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:28:19AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Oprofile has been a pretty bad fit for them, and while I'm slightly more
> 
> You could always use a extension of timer mode that reads them
> periodically? 
> 
This is what I do today, but it is not an ideal solution. It would be
nice if these sorts of use cases could be supported by newer frameworks
without every platform with similar requirements having to implement
workarounds hanging off of the timer IRQ.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-04 23:44 [patch 0/3] [Announcement] Performance Counters for Linux Thomas Gleixner
2008-12-04 23:44 ` [patch 1/3] performance counters: core code Thomas Gleixner
2008-12-05 10:55   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-05 11:20     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-04 23:44 ` [patch 2/3] performance counters: documentation Thomas Gleixner
2008-12-05  0:33   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-05  0:37     ` David Miller
2008-12-05  2:50       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-05  3:26         ` David Miller
2008-12-05  2:33     ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-04 23:45 ` [patch 3/3] performance counters: x86 support Thomas Gleixner
2008-12-05  0:22 ` [patch 0/3] [Announcement] Performance Counters for Linux Paul Mackerras
2008-12-05  6:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  7:02     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-05  7:52       ` David Miller
2008-12-05  7:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  7:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-05  7:57         ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-05  8:03           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-05  8:07             ` David Miller
2008-12-05  8:11               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  8:17                 ` David Miller
2008-12-05  8:24                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  8:27                     ` David Miller
2008-12-05  8:42                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  8:49                         ` David Miller
2008-12-05 12:13                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05 12:39                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-05 20:08                           ` David Miller
2008-12-10  3:48                             ` Paul Mundt
2008-12-10  4:42                               ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-10  8:43                               ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-12-10 10:28                               ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-10 10:23                                 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2008-12-10 11:03                                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-05 15:00               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-05  9:16             ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-05  7:57       ` David Miller
2008-12-05  8:18         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  8:20           ` David Miller
2008-12-05  7:54     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-05  8:08       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  8:15         ` David Miller
2008-12-05 13:25           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  9:10         ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-05 12:07           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-06  0:05             ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-06  1:23               ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-12-06 12:34               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-07  5:15                 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-08  7:18                   ` stephane eranian
2008-12-08 11:11                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-08 11:58                       ` David Miller
2008-12-09  0:21                       ` stephane eranian
2008-12-05  0:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-05  0:43   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-05  1:12 ` David Miller
2008-12-05  6:10   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  7:50     ` David Miller
2008-12-05  9:34     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-05 10:41       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05 10:05     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-05  3:30 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-06  2:36 ` stephane eranian
2008-12-08  2:12   ` [perfmon2] [patch 0/3] [Announcement] Performance Counters forLinux Dan Terpstra
2008-12-10 16:27   ` [perfmon2] [patch 0/3] [Announcement] Performance Counters for Linux Rob Fowler
2008-12-10 17:11     ` Andi Kleen
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2008-12-05 21:24 Corey Ashford

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