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From: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"Lin Ming" <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"lkml" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Frederic Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3 v2] perf: Update perf tool to monitor uncore events
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:52:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3889bf3ab66bbb35ea239b63d95cc4c4.squirrel@www.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=bxEgsLjk-1CK4pSmknyxR_y3OxTJ9DZ_dBW8n@mail.gmail.com>


>>
>> In fact I suspect uncore events are only really useful
>> with "stat", but not with "top", or if they are used in top
>> then the symbol reporting should be disabled.
>>
> I agree, uncore should only be used for counting on a
> per-cpu basis. You can leave the perf tool as is, but

I think you mean per socket base, right? per cpu (= cpu core thread)
doesn't make sense for the uncore either.

Per socket would need a new command line mode. The new mode should
never report any symbols or processes, just events per socket.

-Andi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-21 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-21 12:01 [RFC PATCH 3/3 v2] perf: Update perf tool to monitor uncore events Lin Ming
2010-11-21 12:09 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-21 12:22   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-21 14:19     ` Lin Ming
2010-11-21 16:52     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-11-23  9:18       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-11-21 17:45     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-21 18:28       ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-21 18:30         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-21 14:12   ` Lin Ming

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