On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 18:46 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

quoted text
> @@ -5904,6 +5930,9 @@ static void __init perf_event_init_all_c
>  
>                 cpuctx = &per_cpu(perf_cpu_context, cpu);
>                 __perf_event_init_context(&cpuctx->ctx, NULL);
> +               cpuctx->timer_interval = TICK_NSEC;
> +               hrtimer_init(&cpuctx->timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
> +               cpuctx->timer.function = perf_event_context_tick;
>         }

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> +static void perf_pmu_rotate_start(struct pmu *pmu)
> +{
> +       struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx = &__get_cpu_var(perf_cpu_context);
> +
> +       if (hrtimer_active(&cpuctx->timer))
> +               return;
> +
> +       __hrtimer_start_range_ns(&cpuctx->timer,
> +                       ns_to_ktime(cpuctx->timer_interval), 0,
> +                       HRTIMER_MODE_REL, 0);
>  } 

This probably wants a fuzz factor that lets it fold into the tick we
already have. Thomas what's the easiest way to do that, give it a soft
limit of 1ns and hardlimit of TICK_NSEC?


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