Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758922AbZD0WgP (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:36:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758119AbZD0Wf6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:35:58 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:19350 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758097AbZD0Wf6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:35:58 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,256,1239001200"; d="scan'208";a="136529912" From: "Styner, Douglas W" To: Andi Kleen CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "oprofile-list@lists.sf.net" , "Ma, Chinang" , "willy@linux.intel.com" Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:35:57 -0700 Subject: RE: Discrepancies between Oprofile and vmstat II Thread-Topic: Discrepancies between Oprofile and vmstat II Thread-Index: AcnHhiogPJH+oCkFS0OQA5HRUsTLDQAAc9TQ Message-ID: References: <87ljpmk29b.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20090427185305.GG27382@one.firstfloor.org> <20090427222242.GJ27382@one.firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <20090427222242.GJ27382@one.firstfloor.org> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 18 > >You mean "with higher value", right ? Right. Higher number of samples; lower count value. I'm going to try it the other way as well (count value = 200000) > >It's still strange that it suddenly changed in 2.6.27 though. There >shouldn't have been >a difference there. So I still think it's a regression. > We only first saw it in 2.6.27. It is possible that it goes back to 2.6.26 or 2.6.25. We have not confirmed those kernels. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/