[PATCH v3 7/8] perf: Define PMU_TXN_READ interface

Sukadev Bhattiprolu sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jul 24 11:17:43 AEST 2015


Peter Zijlstra [peterz at infradead.org] wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 04:19:16PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
| > Peter Zijlstra [peterz at infradead.org] wrote:
| > | I've not woken up yet, and not actually fully read the email, but can
| > | you stuff the entire above chunk inside the IPI?
| > | 
| > | I think you could then actually optimize __perf_event_read() as well,
| > | because all these events should be on the same context, so no point in
| > | calling update_*time*() for every event or so.
| > | 
| > 
| > Do you mean something like this (will move the rename to a separate
| > patch before posting):
| 
| More like so.. please double check, I've not even had tea yet.

Yeah, I realized I had ignored the 'event->cpu' spec.
Will try this out. Thanks,

Sukadev



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