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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"ak@linux.intel.com" <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:07:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131017090730.GK2675@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131017081420.GB22705@gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:14:20AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > I.e. you would be encoding the counter unit as the suffix, might as well
> > > call it "power/cores.joules" and use the dot as the separator for the
> > > unit, but would be just a compact form to encode the counter->unit
> > > table.
> >
> > May be easier to add a sysfs entry with the unit to display.
> 
> Yes - with no entry meaning a raw 'count' or such.

The downside to such a sysfs entry will be the scope. It would either be
pmu wide (unwieldy for many PMUs) or be only per listed event; and we
really don't want exhaustive event lists in the kernel.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-17  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-10 14:50 [PATCH v2 0/3] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support Stephane Eranian
2013-10-10 14:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] perf: add active_entry list head to struct perf_event Stephane Eranian
2013-10-10 14:50 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support Stephane Eranian
2013-10-10 14:50 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] perf,x86: add RAPL hrtimer support Stephane Eranian
2013-10-10 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support Andi Kleen
2013-10-10 18:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-16 12:46   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-16 13:13     ` Stephane Eranian
2013-10-16 17:53       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-10-16 18:14         ` Stephane Eranian
2013-10-17  8:14           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-17  9:07             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-10-17  9:12               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-17 20:09               ` Stephane Eranian
2013-10-22 16:47             ` Stephane Eranian
2013-10-22 22:18               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-10-23  9:34                 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-10-23 14:22                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-10-23 14:33                     ` Stephane Eranian
2013-10-23  7:07               ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-23  9:24                 ` Stephane Eranian

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