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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2009-05-15 15:19:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-15 15:26:56 +0200 |
| commit | 60db5e09c13109b13830cc9dcae688003fd39e79 (patch) | |
| tree | ac923b89c28d735d2460216202d960e9c6237be0 /include/linux/perf_counter.h | |
| parent | 789f90fcf6b0b54e655740e9396c954378542c79 (diff) | |
perf_counter: frequency based adaptive irq_period
Instead of specifying the irq_period for a counter, provide a target interrupt
frequency and dynamically adapt the irq_period to match this frequency.
[ Impact: new perf-counter attribute/feature ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.646195868@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_counter.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_counter.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h index e543ecc129f..004b6e162b9 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h @@ -130,7 +130,11 @@ struct perf_counter_hw_event { */ __u64 config; - __u64 irq_period; + union { + __u64 irq_period; + __u64 irq_freq; + }; + __u32 record_type; __u32 read_format; @@ -146,8 +150,9 @@ struct perf_counter_hw_event { mmap : 1, /* include mmap data */ munmap : 1, /* include munmap data */ comm : 1, /* include comm data */ + freq : 1, /* use freq, not period */ - __reserved_1 : 52; + __reserved_1 : 51; __u32 extra_config_len; __u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */ @@ -337,6 +342,7 @@ struct hw_perf_counter { atomic64_t prev_count; u64 irq_period; atomic64_t period_left; + u64 interrupts; #endif }; |