On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:34:05AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> That brings up an interesting question: what is better for users, if >> we schedule as many as we can and say 'not supported' to the rest >> (current behavior), or if we fail the whole group? >> >> I'd say that the default behavior should be what Jiri implemented: get >> the most out of the situation and inform. But you are right in that >> 'forcing' all elements of a group to be valid should be possible as >> well - if a special perf stat option or event format is used. > > So I don't agree, but if you want to keep this IMO weird behaviour at > least WARN about it in big blinking neon letters that the user isn't > getting what he asked for.
Agreed. When I tested this, I already knew what to expect, that's why I was surprised not to get any warning or error messages. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
