Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:28:12 -0400 From: "Ryan Stone" <rysto32@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: pmcstat: should it fail when a cpu is disabled? Message-ID: <bc2d970810061328p794782aaxed78dc1a32077ec6@mail.gmail.com>
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Recently I've run into a small issue where pmcstat will fail if a cpu is disabled unless you specifically tell pmcstat to not attach to that processor. This is annoying for me because we have some machines with hyper-threaded cpus but we disable hyperthreading on them. When we try to run pmcstat on those machines, pmcstat will try to attach to the disabled hyperthreaded cpu and fail. I can work around it by figuring out what the active cpus are and specifying only those cpus to the -c options, but that's annoying. I was thinking that if the -c '*' option is specified(either explicitly or implicitly by not specifying any -c option) that pmcstat should only attach to active cpus and ignore disabled cpus. I have a patch that will do this but I wanted to gauge opinions on whether this behaviour is wanted or not before submitting it. Any strong opinions one way or the other? Ryan Stonehome | help
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