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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] perf-events: Add support for supplementary event registers v3
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Lin Ming <lin@ming.vg> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Intel Nehalem/Westmere have a special OFFCORE_RESPONSE event
>> that can be used to monitor any offcore accesses from a core.
>> This is a very useful event for various tunings, and it's
>> also needed to implement the generic LLC-* events correctly.
>>
>> Unfortunately this event requires programming a mask in a separate
>> register. And worse this separate register is per core, not per
>> CPU thread.
>
> This "separate register" is MSR_OFFCORE_RSP_0, right?
> But from the SDM,  MSR_OFFCORE_RSP_0 is "thread" scope,
> see SDM 3b, Appendix B.4 MSRS IN THE INTEL® MICROARCHITECTURE CODENAME NEHALEM
>
> Or am I missing some obvious thing?
>
The manual is wrong on this.

> Thanks,
> Lin Ming
>
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