Re: [RFC] perf: a different approach to perf_rotate_context()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 04:43:16PM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
> > In any case, there's a ton of conflict against the patches here:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/log/?h=perf/testing
> > 
> > And with those the idea was to move to a virtual time based scheduler
> > (basically schedule those flexible events that have the biggest lag --
> > that also solves 1).
> 
> Thanks for these information. I will study this approach. Maybe that is 
> our path to PMU sharing. 

So I'm really not convinced on that whole PMU sharing.

> What's is the status of this work? Would it 
> land in 4.17? 

These patches might make 4.17, they got held up because of the whole
meltdown/spectre crap and I need to get back to them.