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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
	Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v2
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:02:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081209110246.GC21618@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c86c4470812082237ne58c814s7218cc663f3b49e9@mail.gmail.com>


* stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > There's also more generic x86 support: all 4 generic PMCs of Nehalem 
> > / Core i7 are supported - i've run 4 instances of KernelTop and they 
> > used up four separate PMCs.
>
> Core/Atom have 5 counters, Nehalem has 7. Why are you not using all of 
> them already?

no, Nehalem has 4 generic purpose PMCs and 3 fixed-purpose PMCs (7 
total), Core/Atom has 2 generic PMCs and 3 fixed-purpose PMCs (5 total). 
Saying that it has 7 is misleading. (and even the generic PMCs have 
constraints)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-09 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-08  1:22 [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v2 Ingo Molnar
2008-12-08  1:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-08 11:49   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-07  7:43     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-09  1:07       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-12-08  3:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-08 11:33   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-08 12:02     ` David Miller
2008-12-08 14:41     ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-08 22:03     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-09 13:00       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-09 23:00         ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-08  8:32 ` Corey J Ashford
2008-12-09  6:37 ` stephane eranian
2008-12-09 11:02   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-12-09 11:11     ` David Miller
2008-12-09 11:22       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-09 11:29         ` David Miller
2008-12-09 12:14           ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-12-09 13:46   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-09 16:39     ` Chris Friesen
2008-12-09 19:02       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-09 19:51         ` Chris Friesen
2008-12-09 16:46     ` Will Newton
2008-12-09 17:35       ` Chris Friesen
2008-12-09 21:16     ` stephane eranian
2008-12-09 21:16       ` stephane eranian
2008-12-09 22:19     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-09 22:40       ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-10  4:44         ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-10  5:03           ` stephane eranian
2008-12-10  5:03             ` stephane eranian
2008-12-10 10:26           ` Andi Kleen

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