On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 11:41 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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.
Related; where's the 16h BKDG? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
