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> 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.