Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:34:03 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC mm][PATCH 2/5] percpu cached mm counter |
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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I.e. why not expose these stats via perf events and counts as well, > beyond the current (rather minimal) set of MM stats perf supports > currently?
Certainly one can write perf events that do a simular thing but that is beyond the scope of the work here. This is the result of a test program. The point here is to avoid fault regressions while introducing new process specific counters that are then used by other VM code to make decisions about a process.
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