AmirReza Ghods <ar.gh...@gmail.com> writes:

> I noticed that "perf record" does not calculate the true value for the
> number of event's counts in the case of having more events than
> hardware counters.
> But in pef stat it does and there is a time interpolation algorithm
> for estimating and correcting the true value.
> Also I saw a patch for Perf's source code that implimented time
> interpolation for Perf in record mode but it did not include in the
> next official realses of Perf. I just want to know that is there any
> technical difficulty for implimenting this feature in "perf record" or
> not?

Why would you care about the exact sample count for perf report?

The only thing that counts in such a histogram is the percent
relationships, which would stay the same if the numbers
were scaled up.

-Andi
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