On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 02:28:18PM -0800, Harish Chegondi wrote:
> Knights Landing core is based on Silvermont core with several differences.
> Like Silvermont, Knights Landing has 8 pairs of LBR MSRs. However, the
> LBR MSRs addresses match those of the Xeon cores' first 8 pairs of LBR MSRs
> +/* Knights Landing */
> +void intel_pmu_lbr_init_knl(void)
> +{
> + x86_pmu.lbr_nr = 8;
> + x86_pmu.lbr_tos = MSR_LBR_TOS;
> + x86_pmu.lbr_from = MSR_LBR_NHM_FROM;
> + x86_pmu.lbr_to = MSR_LBR_NHM_TO;
> +
> + x86_pmu.lbr_sel_mask = LBR_SEL_MASK;
> + x86_pmu.lbr_sel_map = snb_lbr_sel_map;
Also, unlike Silvermont, this thing seems to have hardware LBR filters.
So would it not be more accurate to say the KNL has a big core LBR
instead? (Note that this LBR setup isn't specific to Xeon's, all of the
Core chips have this, including the client parts).
> + pr_cont("8-deep LBR, ");
> +}
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