Re: [PATCH 4/4][RFC] perf_counter: Allow sharing of output channels

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Aug 19 2009 - 09:01:09 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Does this only apply to sampling counters?
>
> Yeah, everything that would otherwise go through the mmap()
> buffer.

Note that this can include sample-driven normal counts as well,
i.e. PERF_SAMPLE_READ and perf record -s/--stat.

Ingo
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