Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:46:27 +0000 | From | "Will Newton" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v2 |
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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> Firstly, sampling "at 1msec intervals" or any fixed period is a _very_ > wrong mindset - and cross-sampling counters is a similarly wrong mindset.
If your hardware does not interrupt on overflow I don't think you have any choice in the matter. I know such hardware is less than ideal but it exists so it should be supported.
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