On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:31:12PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES_PRECISE is not a vague request at all: it means > 'get me the most precise cycles profiling available on this system'.
And how will you interpret the results? Do you know to manually adjust for skid or will you assume the results 'correct'? I see such a feature only causing confusion; I told it to be precise, therefore this register op after the memory load really is the more expensive thing. People generally don't volunteer to think, you have to force them to -- even if that makes them complain. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/