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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	eranian@gmail.com, "Meadows,
	Lawrence F" <lawrence.f.meadows@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] perf_event: enable overflow interrupts on KNC
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:07:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121017180753.GA7291@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1210171256550.23243@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu>


* Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> the following patchset enables overflow interrupts on Knights Corner,
> the initial KNC PMU driver that was included in 3.7-rc1 did not
> support this.

Nice!

> The first patch should be straightforward.
> The second should be too, but it relates to a problem with the p6 PMU
>     that I brought up in a separate thread.
> The third patch copies code over from the perf_event_intel.c interrupt
>     handler.  Unfortunately KNC and x86 architectural perfmon use
>     different MSR numbers.  The proper fix might be to make this
>     generic and have function vectors for the status/ack functions,
>     but since they are inline and probably performance critical
>     I took the easy way out and just duplicated the code.

The duplication looks pretty limited to me, so I don't think 
it's a problem.

How well tested is this on real hardware and how robust is the 
hardware with this? Since it's a new PMU driver for v3.7, and if 
these are reasonably well tested, then we could send these to 
Linus via perf/urgent, so that they don't miss and have to wait 
all the way to v3.8.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-17 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-17 17:02 Vince Weaver
2012-10-17 17:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] Make KNC use full 40-bit width of counters Vince Weaver
2012-10-24 10:34   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86: Make Intel " tip-bot for Vince Weaver
2012-10-17 17:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf_event: Remove cpuc->enable check on KNC event enable/disable Vince Weaver
2012-10-24 10:35   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86: Remove cpuc-> enable check on Intl " tip-bot for Vince Weaver
2012-10-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf_event: Enable overflow on KNC with a custom knc_pmu_handle_irq() Vince Weaver
2012-10-24 10:36   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86: Enable overflow on Intel " tip-bot for Vince Weaver
2012-10-17 18:07 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-10-17 20:24   ` [PATCH 0/3] perf_event: enable overflow interrupts on KNC Vince Weaver
2012-10-17 21:47     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-18 17:54       ` Vince Weaver
2012-10-18 18:54         ` Ingo Molnar

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