Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:42:20 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter: Add Generalized Hardware FPU support for AMD |
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* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Plus things like mmx-3dnow are AMD specific, sse-sse2 is x86 > > specific. We definitely want this general table, but the events > > should be truly general. > > mmx and sse are available for both Intel and AMD. Thats why I > added both of them. Is it OK.
'3dnow' is an AMD marketing term. (and is long obsolete)
Nor did you answer (or understand) my sentence above: 'sse' is an x86 specific term.
I think a naming and enumeration scheme around the general concept of 'vectored co-processor' would be far less x86 specific.
Mockup:
19583739 vec-adds ( 2.01x scaled) 20856051 vec-muls ( 2.01x scaled) 20856051 vec-divs ( 2.01x scaled) 25100224054 vec-idle-cycles ( 1.99x scaled) 12540131 vec-busy-cycles ( 1.99x scaled) 42286702 vec-ops ( 2.01x scaled)
Paulus: would this categorization fit PowerPC too?
Ingo
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