On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Firstly, sampling "at 1msec intervals" or any fixed period is a _very_ > wrong mindset - and cross-sampling counters is a similarly wrong mindset. If your hardware does not interrupt on overflow I don't think you have any choice in the matter. I know such hardware is less than ideal but it exists so it should be supported. -- 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