Re: [PATCH] perf_events: improve x86 event scheduling (v6 incremental)

[Stephane Eranian]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:48 +0100, stephane eranian wrote:
>> So we have to modify hw_perf_enable() to first disable all events
>> which are moving,
>> then reprogram them. I suspect it may be possible to optimize this if
>> we detect that
>> those events had already been stopped individually (as opposed to
>> perf_disable()), i.e.,
>> already had their counts saved.
>
> Right, I see no fundamentally impossible things at all, we just need to
> be careful here.
>
> Anyway, I poked at the stack I've got now and it seems to hold up when I
> poke at it with various combinations of constraint events, so I'll push
> that off to Ingo and then we can go from there.
>
> Thanks for working on this!

Ok, so I think the best way to proceed here is to first wait until all of this
is checked in. Then I'll see what is missing based on what we discussed
here.
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