On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One more thing to try would be a regular '-e cycles' non-PEBS run and see > whether there's still largish overhead visible around that instruction. I've done that, and it matches the PEBS runs, except obviously with the instruction skew (so then depending on run it's 95% the instruction after the xadd). So the PEBS profiles are entirely consistent with other data. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html