Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:24:44 +0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf, x86: Add PERF_COUNT_HW_NMI_WATCHDOG event | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> |
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 12:43 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >> we need a different event and counters for watchdog. >> > Does it count the same thing though? If so we could look at having > alternative encodings support (we might need something like that for > offcore too). >
Yes, they count the same thing (well some tech details are different but not much).By using different counters we are allowed to run them simultaneously which makes perf top works again.
Could you elaborate what you have in mind with "alternative encodings" here?
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