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From: chrubis@suse.cz
To: Xiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 3/3] performance_counters: make performance_counters run default
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:04:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140409170455.GA31198@rei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5344EA26.8010209@cn.fujitsu.com>

Hi!
Hi!
> The Number Hardware Counters is 7, But according to above ./perf_event_open02 in RHEL7.0beta,  the output is 5.
> Whether two slots in PMU has been used, or the output of papi_avail is not correct :-) .

I would guess that these are used by kernel or system for something else.

> I tried to figure out how papi_avail gets the number of hardware counters, It seems that it just predefines some const values for
> specific cpus, but I am not very sure, I do not have much time to read the papi_library source code.
> 
> And I afraid that this library does not support enough kinds of cpus. I also met some compilation errors in Fedora19 about this library.
> 
> So whether we can use the first method I mentioned. I think it is more reasonable, at least according to perf_even_open()'s manpage
> and the intent of perf_event_open02 case.

Your method is better, because the testcase only cares if perf events
are multiplexed or not which is implied by different time_enabled and
time_running fields.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-09 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-17  8:13 [LTP] [PATCH 1/3] performance_counters/performance_counter01.c: cleanup Xiaoguang Wang
2014-03-17  8:13 ` [LTP] [PATCH 2/3] performance_counters/performance_counter02.c: cleanup Xiaoguang Wang
2014-03-17  8:13 ` [LTP] [PATCH 3/3] performance_counters: make performance_counters run default Xiaoguang Wang
2014-03-31 15:08   ` chrubis
     [not found]     ` <533A864A.4040109@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-04-01 11:58       ` chrubis
     [not found]         ` <5344EA26.8010209@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-04-09 17:04           ` chrubis [this message]
2014-03-31 14:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/3] performance_counters/performance_counter01.c: cleanup chrubis

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