On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:56:34AM -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> I am looking through the libpfm code and notice that PFMLIB_MAX_PMCS has 
> increased from 256 (libpfm-3.0) to 512 (libpfm-3.2). Is there a specific 
> case where the 256 wasn't large enough? Or is this assuming future perfmon 
> hardware will need the additional space?
> 

Yes, this is justified by the fact that the kernel interface currently
supports up to 320 registers. So 256 was too small to cover for it.
I decided to double it to be okay for a while. We could reduce it
to 320 as well.

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-Stephane
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