Re: [PATCH RFC -tip 0/6] perf: IRQ-bound performance events

[Alexander Gordeev]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:38:02AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Oops, the most interesting part did not make it in. Very sorry :) Here:
> > 
> > # ./tools/perf/perf stat -I 8 -a -e L1-dcache-load-misses:k hwclock --test
> > Mon 03 Jun 2013 09:32:49 AM EDT  -0.719514 seconds
> > 
> >  Performance counter stats for process id '8':
> > 
> >                447 L1-dcache-load-misses                                       
> 
> I think that is very much expected; except in the case where you spend
> _all_ your time in IRQ handlers, they'll pretty much always miss l1
> cache.

The emphasis was on the fact it indeed could be measured for a particular ISR ;)

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Alexander Gordeev
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