The following reply was made to PR kern/179827; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: hiren panchasara <[email protected]> To: Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: kern/179827: [hwpmc] process-mode counters aren't correctly read on multi-core machines Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 18:05:13 -0700 On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> wrote: > Right. Do that but with the test running in another window, so you > don't get the message overlap. Here is how it looks: # p/instructions 293898819 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 0 # p/instructions 201677536862 > > THen look at how the results show lots of '0' from pmcstat, and then > correlate that with the one-second "PMC,OPS" sample lines. See how > whenever they're run whilst the process is running (ie, the last event > was SWI) and it hasn't yet been de-scheduled. because it's still > running, the saved counter is never updated with the PMC counter and > subsequent reads (until it does get de-scheduled!) return the same > cached value. Hence, lots of '0's, followed by a big, big counter > value. Precisely how it looks. Thanks for the explanation. cheers, Hiren _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
