On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 18:08 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > I'm still wondering if the avg user really thinks 'instructions' is > a > > useful metric for other than obtaining ipc measurements. > > > Yeah, for many users CPI (or IPC) is a useful metric.
Right but you don't get that using instruction sampling, right? Or you need to pair it with a cycle count one way or another. And I don't really see PDIST helping with that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
