Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:38:34 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Enable PEBS mode automatically for mem-{loads,stores} v3 |
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:03:39PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > [The patch to enable this in the user tools has been sent separately] > > With the earlier patches to automatically try cpu// and add > a precise sys attribute, we can now enable PEBS for the mem-loads, > mem-stores events everywhere. > > This allows to use > > perf record -e mem-loads ... > > instead of > > perf record -e cpu/mem-loads/p ... > > Always use precise=2 even though it is costly pre-Haswell
This Changelog fails to give a reason _why_ we'd want to do this.
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