Re: [RFC] perf/perf_events: misleading number of samples due tommap()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 16:40 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> The reason is that perf reports an estimate based on the
> number of bytes written to the buffer divided by the minimal
> sample size of 24 bytes. 

Right, we should change that based on the PERF_SAMPLE flags used. It
will remain an estimate due to the out of band events, but it should be
closer than assuming the minimal sample size.
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