Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 May 2011 11:32:08 -0700 | From | Corey Ashford <> | Subject | Re: re-enable Nehalem raw Offcore-Events support |
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On 05/01/2011 10:55 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * 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
Great, that's good to hear.
Thanks,
- Corey
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