Re: [RFC][PATCH 13/19] perf: Per cpu-context rotation timer

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Sep 08 2010 - 09:56:42 EST


On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 15:50 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Because some people (Corey) want to be able to have different rotation
> > periods per pmu driver, so a timer per context was the easy way out.
>
> Makes sense. If you want it fully aligned with the tick, then you just
> might get the real tick time from the tick code and make it proper
> aligned.

Right, I'll go see if I can make that work nicely.
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