[PATCH 1/3] arm/pmu: Reject groups spanning multiple hardware PMUs

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Tue Mar 10 04:27:23 PDT 2015


On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 12:46:30PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> 
> Don't allow grouping hardware events from different PMUs
>  (eg. CCI + CPU).

Uhm, how does this work? If we have multiple hardware PMUs we'll stop
scheduling events after the first failed event schedule. This can leave
one of the PMUs severely under utilized.



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