From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754853Ab0ETOI1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 10:08:27 -0400 Received: from mail-va3.bigfish.com ([216.32.180.116]:34404 "EHLO mail46-va3-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752571Ab0ETOI0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 10:08:26 -0400 X-SpamScore: -14 X-BigFish: VPS-14(zz98dN936eM62a3Lzz1202hzzz32i2a8h43h62h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 1:0 X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 163.181.251.8;Service: EHS X-WSS-ID: 0L2Q1XT-01-49Q-02 X-M-MSG: Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:08:19 +0200 From: Robert Richter To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Stephane Eranian , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Paul Mackerras , David Miller , Will Deacon , Paul Mundt Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] perf: introduce raw_type attribute to specify the type of a raw sample Message-ID: <20100520140819.GQ21799@erda.amd.com> References: <1274304024-6551-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> <1274304024-6551-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> <1274347413.5605.13636.camel@twins> <1274351859.5605.13961.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1274351859.5605.13961.camel@twins> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Reverse-DNS: unknown Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20.05.10 06:37:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > So yeah, you might as well expose it as a whole separate PMU using Lin's > stuff. This seems to be the most promising alternative to raw_type. But it's also much more bloated requiring sysfs and additional file descriptors. -Robert -- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Operating System Research Center email: robert.richter@amd.com