linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf script: Add script to collect and display IBS samples

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:51:59 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf script: Add script to collect and display IBS
 samples


* Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com> wrote:

> Ingo,
> 
> On 09.03.12 12:41:12, Robert Richter wrote:
> > > I suspect being able to skid-less profile on AMD CPUs, using 
> > > IBS, would be a useful feature to users. What would be required 
> > > for that to work?
> > 
> > thanks for putting this into tip. This helps a lot.
> > 
> > I am just looking into skid-less sampling. The effort of attaching the
> > rip taken from the IBS sample for events 0x76/0xc1 should be feasable.
> 
> I have some patches ready for release after the merge window. 
> I noticed conflicts between my development tree on top of 
> tip/perf/x86-ibs and tip/perf/core. Could you merge 
> tip/perf/core into tip/perf/x86-ibs? I will rebase my current 
> patches then. This avoids diverging the trees to much and 
> reduces later conflicts.

Feel free to do the merge yourself - that way you can also test 
the merged tree.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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