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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] perf, amd: Support for Family 16h L2I Performance Counters
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:41:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1365586878.30071.33.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365521034-4496-1-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com>

On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 10:23 -0500, Jacob Shin wrote:
> Upcoming AMD Family 16h Processors provide 4 new performance counters
> to count L2 related events. Similar to northbridge counters, these new
> counters are shared across multiple CPUs that share the same L2 cache.
> This patchset adds support for these new counters and enforces sharing
> by leveraging the existing sharing logic used for the northbridge
> counters.

If they're separate counters -- not shared with the regular cpu
counters like the 10h NB counters are, then they should have their own
PMU driver.

Similar to the 15h NB counters; which are a separate set of counters
and no longer overlay the normal counters.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-10  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-09 15:23 [PATCH RESEND 0/3] perf, amd: Support for Family 16h L2I Performance Counters Jacob Shin
2013-04-09 15:23 ` [PATCH RESEND 1/3] perf, amd: Further generalize NB event constraints handling logic Jacob Shin
2013-04-09 15:23 ` [PATCH RESEND 2/3] perf, x86: Allow for multiple kfree_on_online pointers Jacob Shin
2013-04-09 15:23 ` [PATCH RESEND 3/3] perf, amd: Enable L2I performance counters on AMD Family 16h Jacob Shin
2013-04-10  9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-04-10  9:48   ` [PATCH RESEND 0/3] perf, amd: Support for Family 16h L2I Performance Counters Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-10 11:38   ` Stephane Eranian
2013-04-10 11:49     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-10 11:52       ` Stephane Eranian
2013-04-10 11:55       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-10 11:56         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 12:12           ` Stephane Eranian
2013-04-10 12:28             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 12:29               ` Stephane Eranian
2013-04-10 15:03                 ` Jacob Shin
2013-04-10 12:29             ` Borislav Petkov

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