Re: [perfmon2] kernel panic with monitoring DRAM events

2009-12-01 Thread David Nellans
> Multiplexing of Northbridge events does not work with the current > 2.6.30 code base. I was suggesting > you keep using system-wide but instead use two separate runs. > > pfmon --with-header --outfile=test1 --pin-command -u > -eDRAM_ACCESSES_PAGE:HIT,DRAM_ACCESSES_PAGE:MISS,DRAM_ACCESSES_PAGE

Re: [perfmon2] kernel panic with monitoring DRAM events

2009-12-01 Thread stephane eranian
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:50 PM, David Nellans wrote: > Hi Stephane, > > I have been working with Manu - thus the follow up in another thread. > > Using system-wide monitoring alleviates the problem as I mentioned in > another email. > > Its not clear how we can use two monitoring processes for

Re: [perfmon2] kernel panic with monitoring DRAM events

2009-11-30 Thread David Nellans
Hi Stephane, I have been working with Manu - thus the follow up in another thread. Using system-wide monitoring alleviates the problem as I mentioned in another email. Its not clear how we can use two monitoring processes for a single 8-thread app without using system-wide monitoring since each

Re: [perfmon2] kernel panic with monitoring DRAM events

2009-11-25 Thread stephane eranian
Hi, Sorry for the long delay. I missed your email initially. I am trying this with the 2.6.30 kernel. It does not crash there but I see a kernel with the way control of Northbridge events is handled in the presence of multiple event sets. That does not work. So I suggest you try with two separat

[perfmon2] kernel panic with monitoring DRAM events

2009-11-03 Thread Manu Awasthi
Hi all, I have been measuring memory events for the parsec benchmark suite on a dual socket, quad-core opteron machine with pfmlib version 3.9, kernel pfmon version 2.82 and kernel version 2.6.29.6 . This is what I use as my commandline option: >> pfmon --with-header --outfile=test1 --verbose -u -