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SubjectRe: re-enable Nehalem raw Offcore-Events support
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:17:04PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:

> > Well guess what, AMD family 15h changes all of that.
>
> I don't see a big problem here, Robert has a patch that takes care of
> counter constraints. It probably needs a bit more work but we'll get
> where we need to be.

yes, but it's a bit of a change from the PMU of previous AMD chips,
going against Ingo's argument that the featureset of all modern CPUs is
somehow converging.

> > And you're not going to like LWP. They got tired of waiting for a
> > workable kernel perf counter interface and moved it completely to
> > usersapce,
>
> I don't know where you get your information but that's absolutely and
> completely not nearly even beginning to smell the truth.

I talked with someone fairly involved in the development with LWP who
implied as much in an off-the-record discussion. You have to admit back
5-6 years old when LWP was being planned it wasn't certain that kernel
support for perf events was *ever* going to make it into Linux.
Though maybe AMD is more concerned about the even worse support in other
OSes. It's true you'd probably know better.

> Look at tip/x86/xsave, looks like LWP support will most likely be in
> 2.6.40.

Really? Does Ingo know yet? I get the impression he doesn't like
perf-event features slipping in under the radar like that.

Vince



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