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From: john smith <whalajam@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, peterz@infradead.org,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, whalajam@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:10:10 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8364.43349.qm@web55003.mail.re4.yahoo.com> (raw)

Arjan,

> This patch adds the needed bits to do enable this functionality; they have been
> tested in an experimental cpufreq driver that I'm working on, and the changes
> are all that I needed to access counters properly.

Very useful for a driver performance analysis.
It doesn't look like you added the new api's to your cpufreq driver yet, can you please provide an example of their usage, possibly monitoring multiple counters concurrently?

John


      

             reply	other threads:[~2010-01-25  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-25  5:10 john smith [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-25 10:25 [RFC PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-25 10:44 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-25 11:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-26 16:03 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-09-26 16:11   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-26 16:20     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-09-26 18:32   ` K.Prasad
2009-09-26 18:48     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-01  7:25       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-01  8:16         ` K.Prasad
2009-10-01  8:53           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-01 10:01             ` K.Prasad
2009-10-01 10:28               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-04 22:28             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-10-05  9:55               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-05 10:13                 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-10-05  7:53             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-05  8:55               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-05  9:24                 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-10-05  9:48                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-05 10:08                     ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2010-02-05 15:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-05 17:59   ` john smith
2010-02-06  6:24   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-02-06 11:46     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-06 14:18       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-06 16:08         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-07 17:01   ` Ingo Molnar

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