On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:13:42AM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > At least for x86 and I suspect some 1other architectures we don't
> > initially need a syscall at all for this. There is an instruction
> > RDPMC who can read a performance counter just fine. It is also much
> > faster and generally preferable for the case where a process measures
> > events about itself. In fact it is essential for one of the use cases
> > I would like to see perfmon used (replacement of RDTSC for cycle
> > counting)
> >
>
> This only works when counting (not sampling) and only for self-monitoring.
It works for global monitoring too.
>
> > Later a syscall might be needed with event multiplexing, but that seems
> > more like a far away non essential feature.
> >
> On a machine with only two generic counters such as MIPS or Intel Core 2 Duo,
> multiplexing offers some advantages. If NMI watchdog is enabled, then you drop
> to one generic counter on on Core 2.
NMI watchdog is off by default now.
Yes longer term we might need multiplexing, but definitely not as first step.
-Andi
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