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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:44:31 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v2
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Andi Kleen writes:

> When you say counting you should also include "event ring buffers with
> metadata", like PEBS on Intel x86. 

I'm not familiar with PEBS.  Maybe it's something different again,
neither sampling nor counting, but a third thing?

Paul.
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