Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v2

["Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:22:25 +0100
>
>>
>> * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>> > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:02:46 +0100
>> >
>> > >
>> > > * stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > > There's also more generic x86 support: all 4 generic PMCs of Nehalem
>> > > > > / Core i7 are supported - i've run 4 instances of KernelTop and they
>> > > > > used up four separate PMCs.
>> > > >
>> > > > Core/Atom have 5 counters, Nehalem has 7. Why are you not using all of
>> > > > them already?
>> > >
>> > > no, Nehalem has 4 generic purpose PMCs and 3 fixed-purpose PMCs (7
>> > > total),
>> >  ...
>> > > Saying that it has 7 is misleading.
>> >
>> > Even you just did.
>>
>> which portion of my point stressing the general purpose attribute was
>> unclear to you?
>
> I'm just teasing you because you picked a trite point from stephane's
> email instead of the meat later on, which I would have found more
> interesting to hear you comment on.

I'm interested in Ingo's comments on that argument as well but I don't
feel the need to act like were are all in a kindergarten.

You are two astonishing developers and I'm sure you can demonstrate
that you can have a pure technical discussion on this topic as you did
several times in the past.

Regards,
-- 
Paolo
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