From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updated: Oprofile Multiplexing
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:35:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq2iv5m2.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212509807.22351.1.camel@pranjaparamita> (Jason Yeh's message of "Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:16:47 -0500")
Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com> writes:
> This is an updated patch to enable Oprofile module to switch between different
> sets of events at the user specified interval. It allows the module to gather
> more event statistics than the number of event counters on the hardware in a
> single run of profiling.
>
> A new file (/dev/oprofile/timeout_ms) is added for user to specify the interval.
This sounds actually like something that should be handled with hrtimers
for best results and then ms would be not finegrained enough.
-Andi
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2008-06-03 16:16 [PATCH] Updated: Oprofile Multiplexing Jason Yeh
2008-06-03 16:35 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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