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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:34:11 +0800
From: "Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
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To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 0/13] perf: Intel uncore pmu counting support
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On 06/21/2012 12:01 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> ok, so with this stuff something like:
> 
>   perf stat -ae uncore/event=clockticks/ foo
> 
> will register a counter per cpu, which is somewhat silly since we only
> need one per node. What would be the best way to 'fix' this?
> 
> We could of course create another variant of -a which iterates nodes
> instead of cpus, -N or so.
> 
> Alternatively we could try and describe this in sysfs in some way, one
> possibility would be to include a link to /sys/devices/system/{cpu,node}
> or somesuch and use that link to iterate the correct space.
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
How about treat the 'cpu' parameter for uncore event as socket id instead
of cpu id?

Regards
Yan, Zheng


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