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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6 -tip] perf_counter: Add Generalized Hardware vectored co-processor support for AMD

    * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:

    > $ ./perf stat -e add -e multiply -e divide -e vec-idle-cycles -e vec-stall-cycles -e vec-ops -- /usr/bin/vlc ~jaswinder/Videos/Linus_Torvalds_interview_with_Charlie_Rose_Part_1.flv
    >
    > Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/vlc /home/jaswinder/Videos/Linus_Torvalds_interview_with_Charlie_Rose_Part_1.flv':
    >
    > 20177177044 vec-adds (scaled from 66.63%)
    > 34101687027 vec-muls (scaled from 66.64%)
    > 3984060862 vec-divs (scaled from 66.71%)
    > 26349684710 vec-idle-cycles (scaled from 66.65%)
    > 9052001905 vec-stall-cycles (scaled from 66.66%)
    > 76440734242 vec-ops (scaled from 66.71%)
    >
    > 272.523058097 seconds time elapsed

    Ok, this looks very nice now - a highly generic and still very
    useful looking categorization of FPU/MMX/SSE related co-processor hw
    events.

    I'm still waiting for feedback from Paulus, BenH and Anton, whether
    this kind of generic enumeration fits PowerPC well enough.

    I think from a pure logic/math/physics POV this categorization is
    pretty complete: a modern co-processor has three fundamental states
    we are interested in: idle, busy and busy-stalled. It has an 'ops'
    metric that counts instructions, plus the main operations are add,
    mul and div.

    Cell is i guess a complication to be solved, as there the various
    vector units have separate decoders and separate thread state. This
    above abstraction only covers the portion of CPU designs where there
    are vector operations in the main ALU decoder stream of instructions

    One thing that might be worth exposing is vectored loads/stores in
    general. But we dont have those in the generic ALU enumeration yet
    and if then it should be done together.

    Also, the Nehalem bits need to be tested, i'll try to find time for
    that.

    Good stuff.

    Ingo


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