Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 0/3] [Announcement] Performance Counters for Linux | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:16:25 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:03 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> int main(void) > { > unsigned long long count1, count2; > int fd1, fd2, ret; > > fd1 = perf_counter_open(PERF_COUNT_INSTRUCTIONS, 0, 0, 0, -1); > assert(fd1 >= 0); > fd2 = perf_counter_open(PERF_COUNT_CACHE_MISSES, 0, 0, 0, -1); > assert(fd1 >= 0); > > for (;;) { > ret = read(fd1, &count1, sizeof(count1)); > assert(ret == 8); > ret = read(fd2, &count2, sizeof(count2)); > assert(ret == 8); > > printf("counter1 value: %Ld instructions\n", count1); > printf("counter2 value: %Ld cachemisses\n", count2); > sleep(1); > } > return 0; > }
So, while most people would not consider two consecutive read() ops to be close or near the same time, due to preemption and such, that is taken away by the fact that the counters are task local time based - so preemption doesn't affect thing. Right?
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