Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] perf: x86 RDPMC and RDTSC support

From: Arun Sharma
Date: Tue Dec 06 2011 - 16:53:16 EST


On 12/6/11 1:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 15:17 -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:

I suspect that some optimizations are possible in perf_rotate_context
that don't involve enabling/disabling the PMU via an IPI for simple
cases that involve one or two hardware events (eg: fixed counters).

I've got a patch queued that does exactly that.

Verified that this fixes the lat_ctx regression. Thanks.

-Arun

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