On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Luck, Tony wrote: > > That's all nice and good, but I still have no coherent explanation why > > measuring across allocation domains makes sense. > > Is this in reaction to this one? > > >> 5) Put multiple threads into a single measurement group > > If we fix it to say "threads from the same CAT group" does it fix things? > > We'd like to have measurement groups use a single RMID ... if we > allowed tasks from different CAT groups in the same measurement > group we wouldn't be able to split the numbers back to report the > right overall total for each of the CAT groups.
Right. And the same applies to CPU measurements. If we have threads from 3 CAT groups running on a CPU then the aggregate value (except for bandwidth which can be computed by software) is useless. Thanks, tglx