Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86, perf: Use a new PMU ack sequence on Skylake

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 06:35:14AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > In principle the sequence should work on other CPUs too, but
> > > since I only tested on Skylake it is only enabled there.
> > 
> > I would very much like a reduction of the ack states. You introduced the
> > late thing, which should also work for everyone, and now you introduce
> > yet another variant.
> 
> Ingo suggested to do it this way. Originally I thought it wasn't needed,
> but I think now that late-ack made some of the races that eventually
> caused Skylake LBR to fall over worse. So in hindsight it was a good idea
> to not use it everywhere. 
> 
> > I would very much prefer a single ack scheme if at all possible.
> 
> Could enable it everywhere, but then users would need to test it
> on most types of CPUs, as I can't.

I think Mike still has a Core2 machine (and I might be able to dig out a
laptop), Ingo should have a NHM(-EP), I have SNB, IVB-EP, HSW. So if you
could test at least BDW and SKL we might have decent test coverage.

Ingo, do you want to first merge the safe patch and then clean up?
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