On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:05:19PM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > I don't think this is going to work for the simple reason that perfmon supports per-thread > monitoring. As a thread migrates from one CPU to another, its PMU state migrates with it. > So you cannot reload a full Montecito state onto a Madison PMU. You will not crash, because > write to unimplemented PMD are ignored but you will get false results. Even in system-wide > tools are not prepare to cope with mixed configurations. I suppose you could lock a thread to running only on the kind of CPU it started running on. It's not a great solution though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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