Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf, x86: Avoid checkpointed counters causingexcessive TSX aborts v4

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Aug 31 2013 - 11:42:45 EST


> > So can just drop the XXX comment. Ok?
>
> How about hiding the entire thing in a hsw function. I'm fairly sure
> that eventually we'll need to check all counters for this nonsense.

AFAIK there are no plans to do so.

>
> Something like so perhaps?

It's ok for me, except it's not for TSX (that's intx), but only for
intx_checkpointed.

Should I send a new patch?

-Andi
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