Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:36:07 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] perf/core: what is exclude_idle supposed to do |
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:10:20AM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:04:53PM +0000, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to understand what the exclude_idle event attribute is supposed > > > to accomplish. > > > As per the definition in the header file: > > > > > > exclude_idle : 1, /* don't count when idle */ > > > > AFAICS it's not implemented > > so just to be completely clear hear, we're saying that the "exclude_idle" > modifier has never done anything useful and still doesn't?
AFAICT it works on Power and possibly ARM.
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