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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/14] x86: generic aperf/mperf code.
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:27:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252056439.7564.4.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252056311.7564.3.camel@twins>

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 11:25 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 11:19 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > You still use struct perf_pair split/hi/lo members in #ifdef __i386__ 
> > case which you deleted above.
> 
> > >               shift_count = fls(h);
> > >  
> > > -             cur.aperf.whole >>= shift_count;
> > > -             cur.mperf.whole >>= shift_count;
> > > +             cur.aperf >>= shift_count;
> > > +             cur.mperf >>= shift_count;
> > >       }
> > >  
> > >       if (((unsigned long)(-1) / 100) < cur.aperf.split.lo) {
> > Same here, possibly still elsewhere.
> > Is this only x86_64 compile tested?
> 
> Of course, who still has 32bit only hardware anyway ;-)
> 
> Will fix, thanks for spotting that.

Hrmm, on that, does it really make sense to maintain the i386 code path?

How frequently is that code called and what i386 only chips support
aperf/mperf, atom?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03 13:21 [RFC][PATCH 00/14] load-balancing and cpu_power -v3 Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 01/14] sched: restore __cpu_power to a straight sum of power Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 02/14] sched: SD_PREFER_SIBLING Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 03/14] sched: update the cpu_power sum during load-balance Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 04/14] sched: add smt_gain Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 05/14] sched: dynamic cpu_power Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/14] sched: scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/14] sched: try to deal with low capacity Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/14] sched: remove reciprocal for cpu_power Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/14] x86: move APERF/MPERF into a X86_FEATURE Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/14] x86: generic aperf/mperf code Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-04  9:19   ` Thomas Renninger
2009-09-04  9:25     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-04  9:27       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-09-04  9:34         ` Thomas Renninger
2009-09-04 14:22         ` Dave Jones
2009-09-04 14:42           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-04 17:45             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/14] sched: provide arch_scale_freq_power Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 12/14] x86: sched: provide arch implementations using aperf/mperf Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 13/14] sched: cleanup wake_idle power saving Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 13:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 14/14] sched: cleanup wake_idle Peter Zijlstra

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