Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754232Ab2EXJDo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2012 05:03:44 -0400 Received: from LGEMRELSE1Q.lge.com ([156.147.1.111]:50026 "EHLO LGEMRELSE1Q.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750924Ab2EXJDn (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2012 05:03:43 -0400 X-AuditID: 9c93016f-b7c3cae000001954-6b-4fbdf96dab4c From: Namhyung Kim To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Paul Mackerras , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Make cycles:p working on SNB References: <1337828525-1789-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com> <1337844471.9783.48.camel@laptop> <1337845936.9783.57.camel@laptop> <1337846272.9783.59.camel@laptop> <1337846873.9783.66.camel@laptop> Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 18:01:23 +0900 In-Reply-To: <1337846873.9783.66.camel@laptop> (Peter Zijlstra's message of "Thu, 24 May 2012 10:07:53 +0200") Message-ID: <87obpeq7fg.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 19 On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:07:53 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:00 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: >> The PREC_DIST is by design, it is not a work-around of any sort. >> It is an attempt at getting a better distribution of samples when sampling >> with inst_retired. > > Oh completely agreed, note that my patch used UOPS_RETIRED.ALL. Only > Namhyung used PREC_DIST, mostly I suspect because he's not stared at all > these manuals for long yet ;-) True. :) Thanks, Namhyung -- 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/