Hi,
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:21:41AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > An alternative approach might be to change perfmon so that it works out
> > whether it is being called by an idle thread
> >
> > if ((current->flags & PF_IDLE) && (other stuff to do with irqs?))
> > return;
>
> The problem is that the performance counters just keep running in the CPU.
> Perfmon needs to do something actively to disable them.
>
Exactly.
> Actually on x86 they usually stop in true idle state in hardware, but
> they don't do in polling mode and it sometimes seems to depend on
> the firmware. So it mostly would be for idle=poll
>
Most likely. But we also have the deal with other architectures such
as MIPS,IA64, and PPC.
> But if you do walk clock time profiling exactly because they stop
> a profiler should account for this somehow. Otherwise the profiling time
> doesn't add up to 100%
>
Yes. Note that perfmon does maintain the duration when monitornig was active.
So it is possible to determine active time and use it to scale counts.
--
-Stephane
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