Re: [Powertop] [PATCH] Fix timer and work perf events timestamp tracing

On 9/5/2012 10:19 AM, Rajagopal Venkat wrote: > On 5 September 2012 22:39, Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com&gt; wrote: >> On 9/5/2012 9:56 AM, Rajagopal Venkat wrote: >>>> measure1: >>>> ev3.start >>>> ev1.end <<<<< >>> >>> evX.end <<<<< >>> These events are causing numbers to go wrong. >> >> but out of a 20 second window.. this is a tiny tiny window... >> if you see 100.1% I'd buy this reasoning. >> but you're seeing much more than that. > > How about generating a report for 1sec duration? even for 1 second... still it's miniscule compared to this whole 1 second the amount of setup/teardown time just is not that huge.