Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Proposal for in-kernel buffering of CPC overflow events

2006-05-18 Thread Russ Blaine
Sorry for jumping back into this discussion so much later... Jonathan Adams wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:32:05AM -0800, WILLIAM CHEN wrote: In response to the question of what happens if the buffer never overflows. One will not get an interrupt if the buffer does not overflow. In this ca

Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Proposal for in-kernel buffering of CPC overflow events

2006-03-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:32:05AM -0800, WILLIAM CHEN wrote: > In response to the question of what happens if the buffer never > overflows. One will not get an interrupt if the buffer does not > overflow. In this case, the event being monitored is very rare > or the application being monitored h

[perf-discuss] Re: Proposal for in-kernel buffering of CPC overflow events

2006-03-08 Thread WILLIAM CHEN
Thread id is very useful information to include also. William This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org

[perf-discuss] Re: Proposal for in-kernel buffering of CPC overflow events

2006-03-08 Thread WILLIAM CHEN
In response to the question of what happens if the buffer never overflows. One will not get an interrupt if the buffer does not overflow. In this case, the event being monitored is very rare or the application being monitored has a very short execution time. In either case, the overhead of th