Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] perf: use hrtimer for event multiplexing

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:20 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 17:37 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >
> >> Note however that the rotation_list is still used in perf_event_task_tick()
> >> to iterate over the ctx which needs unthrottling. We would have to switch
> >> that loop over to a for-each-pmu() which would necessary incur more
> >> iterations as it would include all the SW PMUs.
> >
> > Oh urgh, right. I think that was one of the reasons I bailed on the
> > hrtimer thing, the frequency and throttle stuff.
> >
> > ctx->nr_freq and needs_unthr could help, but yeah.
> 
> I think for now, we could keep rotation list for the unthrottling.
> Multiplexing won't use rotation_list anymore.

wouldn't that still have the problem where we take the sw-pmus off of
the rotation-list?
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