From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] [Announcement] Performance Counters for Linux Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:28:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20081210102819.GF23556@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20081205.002701.172921476.davem@davemloft.net> <20081205084233.GE2030@elte.hu> <87ej0mx0c0.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20081205.120814.51226316.davem@davemloft.net> <20081210034824.GA27217@linux-sh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:60609 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754706AbYLJKQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:16:43 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081210034824.GA27217@linux-sh.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Paul Mundt , David Miller , andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, paulus@samba.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vg > Oprofile has been a pretty bad fit for them, and while I'm slightly more You could always use a extension of timer mode that reads them periodically? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com