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SubjectRe: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v3
Hi,

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> We've implemented the essence of these variants, with sharing the resource
> being the sane default, and with the sysadmin also having a configuration
> vector to reserve the resource to himself permanently. (There could be
> more variations of this.)
>
Reading the v4 code, it does not appear the sysadmin can specify which
resource to reserve. The current code reserves a number of counters.
This is problematic with hardware where not all counters can measure
everything, or when not all PMU registers are counters.


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