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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter: Add Generalized Hardware FPU support for AMD
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:42:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090630224220.GI1241@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246368049.3026.11.camel@hpdv5.satnam>


* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:

> > Plus things like mmx-3dnow are AMD specific, sse-sse2 is x86 
> > specific. We definitely want this general table, but the events 
> > should be truly general.
> 
> mmx and sse are available for both Intel and AMD. Thats why I 
> added both of them. Is it OK.

'3dnow' is an AMD marketing term. (and is long obsolete)

Nor did you answer (or understand) my sentence above: 'sse' is an 
x86 specific term.

I think a naming and enumeration scheme around the general concept 
of 'vectored co-processor' would be far less x86 specific.

Mockup:

        19583739  vec-adds               (   2.01x scaled)
        20856051  vec-muls               (   2.01x scaled)
        20856051  vec-divs               (   2.01x scaled)
     25100224054  vec-idle-cycles        (   1.99x scaled)
        12540131  vec-busy-cycles        (   1.99x scaled)
        42286702  vec-ops                (   2.01x scaled)

Paulus: would this categorization fit PowerPC too?

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-30 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-29  9:33 [PATCH -tip] perf_counter: Add Generalized Hardware FPU support for AMD Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-30 10:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-30 13:20   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-30 14:56     ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-30 22:42     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-06-30 23:14       ` Alan Cox
2009-07-01 12:33       ` Paul Mackerras
2009-07-01 13:12         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-01 13:25         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput

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