Re: [PATCH 09/10] perf/cputime: Don't stop idle tick if there's live cputime event

[Jiri Olsa]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:01:30AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:45 AM Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:15:12AM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > Disable stopping of the idle tick when having live cputime
> > > event. When the tick is disabled, the idle counts are out
> > > of date until next tick/update and perf cputime PMU provides
> > > misleading counts.
> >
> > I really don't like this. This can totally change performance
> > (e.g. less Turbo due to less idle) and performance tools shouldn't
> > change the performance profile drastically.
> >
> You do not want to change the behavior of the kernel just because you
> are monitoring.
> This may introduce side effects on other events which may not otherwise exist.

right.. I guess we can survive few seconds of misleading idle counts
and perhaps we could detect nohz is enabled and warn about this

thanks,
jirka