Re: [RFC PATCH] perf: Add PERF_RECORD_SWITCH to indicate context switches

[Adrian Hunter]

On 12/06/15 03:47, David Ahern wrote:
> On 6/11/15 8:15 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> This new PERF_RECORD_SWITCH event does not have those problems
>>> and it also has a couple of other small advantages. It is
>>> easier to use because it is an auxiliary event (like mmap,
>>> comm and task events) which can be enabled by setting a single
>>> bit. It is smaller than sched:sched_switch and easier to parse.
>>
>> Right, so the one wee problem I have is that this only provides sched_in
>> data, I imagine people might be interested in sched_out as well.
> 
> Yes and with the option of collecting callchains for sched_out.

So what do you want that is different different from
PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES? And why?

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