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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 21:11:23 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] perf/x86-ibs: Precise event sampling with IBS for
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* Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> wrote:

>  perf record -a -e cpu-cycles:p ...    # use ibs op counting cycle count

Cool - this makes IBS really useful!

Mind posting some perf annotate output of any well-known kernel 
function showing skiddy '-e cpu-cycles' output versus skid-less 
'-e cpu-cycles:p' output?

I'm curious how well this works in practice.

Thanks,

	Ingo