Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] drm/etnaviv: export loadavg via perfmon

From: Christian Gmeiner
Date: Sat Jul 02 2022 - 07:58:11 EST


Hi Lucas

> You need to explain a bit more how you intend to use those.
>
> Contrary to all other perfmon values, where we go to great lengths to
> only count the load put onto the GPU by the specific process requesting
> the perfmon, the loadavg values also include the load caused by other
> submits. Due to this difference in behavior I fear that those new
> counters might be confusing to use. But maybe you have a use-case in
> mind that I don't see right now.

I see these values as total load avg of a sub-GPU component. Sure it is not per
process but it is a starting point. I have no problem introducing per
process load avg
values .. lets see how the next version of this series will look like,

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