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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:51:08 -0800 (PST)
From: dean gaudet <dean@...tic.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc: Philip Mucci <mucci@...utk.edu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@....hp.com>,
William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, papi list <ptools-perfapi@...utk.edu>
Subject: Re: perfmon2 merge news
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I didn't see a clear list.
- cross platform extensible API for configuring perf counters
- support for multiplexed counters
- support for virtualized 64-bit counters
- support for PC and call graph sampling at specific intervals
- support for reading counters not necessarily with sampling
- taskswitch support for counters
- API available from userland
- ability to self-monitor: need select/poll/etc interface
- support for PEBS, IBS and whatever other new perf monitoring
infrastructure the vendors through at us in the future
- low overhead: must minimize the "probe effect" of monitoring
- low noise in measurements: cannot achieve this in userland
permon2 has all of this and more i've probably neglected...
-dean
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