On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:57:01PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Dave, I'm assuming that trinidy does things as threads, such that it
> may be two threads calling perf with the same descriptor, and if we
> don't have the proper locks, things can get bad, right?
>
close. It does use as many processes as there are cpus (unless you override
with -C)
but the fd's created by perf_event_open were only being used within the thread
that created them. I just committed code to make it also reuse some shared ones
created from the parent process.
Dave
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