Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v2

[Will Newton]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Firstly, sampling "at 1msec intervals" or any fixed period is a _very_
> wrong mindset - and cross-sampling counters is a similarly wrong mindset.

If your hardware does not interrupt on overflow I don't think you have
any choice in the matter. I know such hardware is less than ideal but
it exists so it should be supported.
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