Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v3

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 12:13:38 EST


Peter Zijlstra, le Fri 12 Dec 2008 09:25:45 +0100, a écrit :
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 13:02 -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > Also, my primary method of using counters is total aggregate count for a
> > single user-space process.
>
> Process, as in single thread, or multi-threaded? I'll assume
> single-thread.

BTW, just to make sure it is taken into account (I haven't followed the
thread up to here, just saw a "pid_t" somwhere that alarmed me): for our
uses, we _do_ need per-kernelthread counters.

Samuel
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