Re: [PATCH 06/12] perf/x86-ibs: Precise event sampling with IBS forAMD CPUs

[Stephane Eranian]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 18:09 +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
>>
>> But do you agree to have level 1 and 2 mapped to ibs, not just only
>> level 2 (since I don't want to fail with r076:p)?
>
> Sure, you can have 1 and 2 mean the same. 2 wants 0 skid, 1 wants
> constant skid, 0 is a constant, therefore its consistent.

Yes. With IBS I would expect no difference in the samples between
level  1 and 2. But that's okay. As Peter says, it still fits within the
definitions of those levels.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/