linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V7 07/14] perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP

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Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:51:42 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     kan.liang@...ux.intel.com, acme@...hat.com, mingo@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, eranian@...gle.com,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, like.xu@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 07/14] perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP_COEXIST event
 capability

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:39:08AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The consequence is that SLOTS must be the leader, is that really a
> > problem? You keep providing the {cycles, slots, metric-things} example,
> 
> Yes that's a problem. One (major) use case for topdown is to
> sample on lots of different events, but always create groups that
> also measure topdown metrics for that sampling period. For that we need
> other leaders.

Apparently the only problem here is the tool, the kernel doesn't care
which events in a group are sampling, there could be multiple.