Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] perf tool: Parse general/raw events from sysfs

From: Lin Ming
Date: Mon Aug 08 2011 - 04:57:58 EST


On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 16:48 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 09:08 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> >
> > We only need to register one pmu with two same graphics cards.
> > Then we can overload pid argument of sys_perf_event_open() to
> > differentiate each instance of graphic card.
> >
> > Just like perf cgroup does.
>
> I don't like that much at all.. For one it will make it impossible to
> put the pmu device in the right sysfs topology.

So do you prefer adding a number to gpu name, as Stephane mentioned?


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