Re: New perfevent PMDA

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi -

> > [...]
> >- The configuration file appears to hard-code the perfcounters to be
> >  multiplexed/available.  Did you consider automatically enumerating
> >  all the available ones on the platform instead?
> 
> I don't understand your question. The code checks which hardware PMUs are
> available and then enumerates the available counters. The code then
> enables the counters that are specified in the relevant hardware PMU
> section in the configuration file. [...]

To clarify, I wonder what value the configuration file brings.  If we
can enumerate hardware-available counters based on the lower-level
library, why not represent apprx. all of them to the PMNS?


- FChE