Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] perf: show package power consumption in perf

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 09:32 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> 
> 
> How big is the hardware counter? The problem comes when the process is
> scheduled in and runs for a long time, e.g. so long that the energy
> hardware counter wraps. This is why it's necessary to periodically
> sample the counter.
> 
Long running processes aren't the only case, you could associate an
event with a CPU.

Right, short counters (like SH when not chained) need something to
accumulate deltas into the larger u64. You can indeed use timers for
that, hr or otherwise, but you don't need the swcounter hrtimer
infrastructure for that.
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