Re: [PATCH] perfcounters: Make s/w counters in a group only countwhen group is on

[Ingo Molnar]

* Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Peter Zijlstra writes:
> 
> > The issue I have with your approach is two-fold:
> >  - it breaks the symmetry between software and hardware counters by
> >    treating them differently.
> 
> So... I was about to restore that symmetry by implementing 
> lazy PMU context switching.  [...]

That would be _really_ neat to have.

	Ingo
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