Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:15:11 -0700 | From | "David S. Ahern" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Add reference timestamp to perf header |
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> We have: > > [acme@mica linux]$ perf list | grep -- -clock > cpu-clock [Software event] > task-clock [Software event] > [acme@mica linux]$ > > So we would have a new one: > > monotonic-clock
Name seems off. The 'event' is to grab time-of-day and have the 'time' attribute set which gives the correlation between wall-clock and perf timestamps.
David
> > Peter, agreed? I'll try to implement it now, good opportunity to learn a > bit more about soft pmus, I'd have to do that anyway for NIC stats, etc. > > - Arnaldo
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