Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:22:15 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: PEBS bug on HSW: "Unexpected number of pebs records 10" (was:
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* Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
> <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >> a simple multithreaded program where
> >> #threads >> #CPUs
> >
> > To put it another way, does Intel's HT work for CPU intensive and IO
> > minimal tasks? I think HT assumes some amount of inefficient IO
> > coupled with pure CPU usage.
> 
> But your remark has nothing to do with the PMU issue.

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Thanks,

	Ingo
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