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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 03:11:23 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6 -tip] perf_counter: Add Generalized Hardware interrupt support for AMD * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 12:22 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 13:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > $ ./perf stat -e interrupts -e masked -e int-pending-mask-cycles -- ls -lR /usr/include/ > /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > Performance counter stats for 'ls -lR /usr/include/': > > > > > > > > > > 377 interrupts > > > > > 53429936 int-mask-cycles > > > > > 1119 int-pending-mask-cycles > > > > > > > > > > 0.371457539 seconds time elapsed > > > > > > > > Agreed, this is another useful generalization - and the 'cycles > > > > pending' metrics are not retrievable via any software means. > > > > > > > > We could and should probably add a software counter for hardirqs > > > > as wel. That would allow the vector/irqnr information to be > > > > passed in, and it would allow architectures without irq metrics > > > > in the PMU to have this counter too. > > > > > > > > > > Please let me know that addition of software counter will be > > > in this patch or we can do it incrementally after this patch. > > > > It should be in this series. That way we can cross-check whether > > the soft counts and the hard counts match up and find potential > > bugs that way, etc. > > > > You want to cross check performance counter events ? Yes. The events are also more complete if we add per IRQ source counts as well, not just summary counts. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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