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Date:   Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:59:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf intel-pt: Synthesize cycle events
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 01:19:46PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> I guess the good news is that the perf report coming out of your version
>> looks more likely to me; I have some functions that are around 1% that
>> shouldn't intuitively be that much (and, if I write some Perl to sum up
>> the cycles from the IPC lines in perf script, are more around 0.1%).
>> So perhaps we should stop chasing the difference? I don't know.
> That doesn't sound right.  I will look at it more closely in the next few days.

If you need, I can supply the perf.data and binaries, but we're talking
a couple of gigabytes of data (and I don't know immediately if there's
an easy way I can package up everything perf.data references) :-)

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