Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 May 2011 19:55:05 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: re-enable Nehalem raw Offcore-Events support |
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* Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Carl Love and I recently completed some work to add perf_events support for > the IBM Blue Waters machine's "CPU networking" chip, called the Torrent chip. > We did all of this work based on a RHEL 6 kernel (2.6.32ish), which doesn't > have Peter's more recent multi-PMU support. > > I would say that most if not all of the events are not generalizable in the > sense that you are talking about; the events are very specific to the Torrent > chip. [...]
That's ok and not a problem.
The issue here are events that *are* generalizable.
> So if I'm understanding what you have said correctly, we would not be able to > get a forward port of this code committed without abstracting these events in > a away that's acceptable to the kernel community. [...]
If the number of events worth generalizing is the empty set that's ok.
Thanks,
Ingo
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