Prev: Toyota.......Award......Lucky.....Winner
Next: [BUG] perf_events: ctx_flexible_sched_in()
From: Peter Zijlstra on 1 Feb 2010 07:30
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 13:20 +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> The function does not allow maximizing PMU usage because of
> the way can_add_hw is managed. Basically, as soon as a group
> fail to be scheduled in, then no other group can. I believe this
> is not optimum. You need to skip the group that fails and keep
> scanning the list. There may be other groups which can be
> scheduled.

Yeah, I saw that too, we need a new hw_ callback for that, or more
structured error values out of ->enable that distinguish between this
event won't fit and pmu full.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
 | 
Pages: 1
Prev: Toyota.......Award......Lucky.....Winner
Next: [BUG] perf_events: ctx_flexible_sched_in()