linux-kernel - Re: register_timer_hook use in arch/sh/oprofile

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Message-ID: <20090626072350.GI14078@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:23:50 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: register_timer_hook use in arch/sh/oprofile


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > [ And long-term analysis ('perf stat' type of runs) dont need IRQs 
> >   anyway - perfcounters reads outs the counts and summarizes them 
> >   across the measured workload. ]
> 
> If the counter width is less than 64 bits we do need to have some 
> interrupt to read them from before they cycle so we can accumulate 
> the deltas into a proper u64.

Yeah - but even that can be driven from some housekeeping hrtimer.

> But for proper 64 bit hardware counters there is indeed no need 
> for that.

Indeed - although they are rare.

	Ingo
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