Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:27:36 -0700 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: re-enable Nehalem raw Offcore-Events support |
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:04:46AM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote: > Hello Linus > > can you revert the commit b52c55c6a25e4515b5e075a989ff346fc251ed09
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
(I wrote the original patch)
> (finally!) added in the 2.6.39 merge window. However this is a useful > feature and many tools (including the PAPI performance counter library > that I work on) had added support for it in anticipation of the 2.6.39
I also use some tools which benefit from this functionality. The extended raw events are very useful to analyze NUMA problems for once.
-Andi
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