perf_counter: frequency based adaptive irq_period
Instead of specifying the irq_period for a counter, provide a target interrupt
frequency and dynamically adapt the irq_period to match this frequency.
[ Impact: new perf-counter attribute/feature ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.646195868@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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