From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russ Anderson Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:30:14 +0000 Subject: Re: perfmon Itanium 9100 series support (Montvale) Message-Id: <20071114143011.GA4266@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <20071113223401.GI5747@frankl.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20071113223401.GI5747@frankl.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:34:01PM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Intel released the Itanium 9100 series (Montvale) a few days ago. > > My understanding is that the Montvale PMU is fully compatible with > the Montecito PMU (dual-core Itanium 9000 series). Thus, there will > not be any patches needed neither at the kernel level, nor in libpfm > or pfmon to support this new processor. Perfmon prints out "Montecito PMU" when booted on a Montvale. Updating the message may avoid some confusion. --- perfmon: version 2.0 IRQ 238 perfmon: Montecito PMU detected, 27 PMCs, 35 PMDs, 12 counters (47 bits) --- Both Montvale and Montecito are family 32. Montvale is model 1. Montecito is model 0. --- saturn1-10:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor : GenuineIntel arch : IA-64 family : 32 model : 1 model name : Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 Processor 9150M [...] processor : 4 vendor : GenuineIntel arch : IA-64 family : 32 model : 0 model name : Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 Processor 9040 --- > Those comments hold true for the mainline perfmon (v2.0) and > the development perfmon in GIT (v2.7). Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com