----- Original Message -----
> Recent pmlogextract changes have exposed this badness in the linux pmda ...
> the assignment of PMIDs and PMNS names for the kernel.percpu.interrupts
> metrics ... is all over the shop.
*nod*.
> This pmda needs to be fixed so that in the absence of any sane semantics for
> this data (kernel.percpu.interrupts.lineN is not really helpful for most
> mortals)
FWLIW, the metric help text is also dynamic for these, and has more detailed
info (wasn't used for the metric names themselves due to PMNS name rules).
> , the mapping from PMNS to PMID needs to be fixed and deterministic.
I think an extension or analogous interfaces to the pmdaCache API series that
will allow allocation of item numbers in the range 2^10-1 is needed here - we
have hit this in a couple of places now.
cheers.
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Nathan
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