Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] perfcounter: Add support for kernel hardwarebreakpoints

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jul 28 2009 - 10:40:31 EST


On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 10:04 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> As you see, none of these 2 ways to gather trace data allow statistical
> RR. Therefore, having this feature in the low-level API does not seem to
> make sense for tracing.

I'm not asking for it to be available in the low level API. Quite
contrary, I'm saying that the current API is too high level and pretty
useless for perf counters.



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