On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:31:31 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Btw., i'm curious, why would we want to do that? It skews the results > if the task continues executing and counters stop. To get the highest > quality profiling output the counters should follow the true state of > the task that is profiled - and events should be passed to the > monitoring task asynchronously. The _events_ can contain precise > coupled information > - but the counters should continue. btw stopping the task on counter overflow is an issue for things that want to self profile, like JITs -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
