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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
	acme@kernel.org, open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] x86, perf: counter freezing breaks rr
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:14:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181121081420.GF2131@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181120223854.GH13936@tassilo.jf.intel.com>

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:38:54PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > In fact, I'll argue FREEZE_ON_OVERFLOW is unfixably broken for
> > independent counters, because while one counter overflows, we'll stall
> > counting on all others until we've handled the PMI.
> > 
> > Even though the PMI might not be for them and they very much want/need
> > to continue counting.
> 
> We stop all counters in any case for the PMI. With freeze-on-PMI it just
> happens slightly earlier.

Hiding the PMI is fine and good. The PMI is not the workload. Stopping
it earlier is _NOT_ good, it hides your actual workload.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-21  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-20 16:19 [REGRESSION] x86, perf: counter freezing breaks rr Kyle Huey
2018-11-20 17:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-20 17:59   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86/intel: Fix regression by default disabling perfmon v4 interrupt handling tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-20 18:20   ` [REGRESSION] x86, perf: counter freezing breaks rr Stephane Eranian
2018-11-20 19:50     ` Kyle Huey
2018-11-20 19:41 ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-20 19:54   ` Kyle Huey
2018-11-20 20:11     ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-20 20:53       ` Kyle Huey
2018-11-20 21:18         ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-20 21:46           ` Kyle Huey
2018-11-20 22:19             ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-20 21:19         ` Stephane Eranian
2018-11-20 21:34           ` Kyle Huey
2018-11-20 22:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-20 22:25         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-20 22:38           ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-21  8:14             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-11-27 22:08               ` Kyle Huey
2018-11-27 23:36                 ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-28  1:25                   ` Stephane Eranian
2018-11-29 14:50                     ` Liang, Kan
2018-11-29 15:35                   ` Peter Zijlstra

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