* Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu> wrote:

> Note that you do not want the context switch event, but the CPU 
> migration event: that will notify user-space when it gets migrated 
> to another CPU. This is the case that RCU really needs.

Also note that the main current use-case of perf events is 
instrumentation, thus if you make use of this facility for user-space 
RCU you need to check whether the events are all precise and arrive 
in time to the target process, etc.

Statistical behavior isnt a big problem for instrumentation but it's 
a showstopper for RCU, obviously! :-)

If you find such bugs then we want to fix them, so there's no 
fundamental *desire* from us for these events to be statistical and 
inaccurate anywhere.

Thanks,

        Ingo
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