Re: [perfmon2] switch event set on PMD overflow

2009-02-24 Thread stephane eranian
Hi, On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:11 AM, wrote: > hi all, >    I am using perfmon kernel v2.6 with pfmlib v3.5. Can I switch event > sets on overflow of a specific PMD register? > Yes, you can. You need to set the flag PFM_SETFL_OVFL_SWITCH on the event set using the pfm_create_event_sets() syscall

[perfmon2] switch event set on PMD overflow

2009-02-23 Thread xudi
hi all, I am using perfmon kernel v2.6 with pfmlib v3.5. Can I switch event sets on overflow of a specific PMD register? On sample mode, I would like to switch event sets when the sample-based event PMD overflow. I guess one solution is set the size of sampling buffer to only one entry, and I