| Date | Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:58:41 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: IV.1 - Support for model-specific uncore PMU |
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> IV/ Open questions > > 1/ Support for model-specific uncore PMU monitoring capabilities > > Recent processors have multiple PMUs. Typically one per core and > but also one at the socket level, e.g., Intel Nehalem. It is > expected that this API will provide access to these PMU as well. > > It seems like with the current API, raw events for those PMU would > need a new architecture-specific type as the event encoding by > itself may not be enough to disambiguate between a core and uncore > PMU event. > > How are those events going to be supported?
(Please see our reply to II.2.)
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