Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter/x86: Fix incorrect default branch

[Yong Wang]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:23:13PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The event selector and UMASK values of Nehalem do not apply to all 
> > Intel processors.
> 
> The idea was to offer _some_ sort of table on new CPUs, instead of 
> nothing...
> 
> Eventually Intel stops changing those model specific index values in 
> future CPUs and puts them into architectural perfmon, for 
> fundamental stats like L1/LLC cache statistics.
> 
> In that case defaulting to the latest (known) enumeration might work 
> out to be just the thing used by all future CPUs.
> 
> So this is a subtle hint ;-)
> 

I see what you mean. You talked about future cpus. But what about those
old ones that are not atom, core2 or nehalem? Forget about them?

Thanks
-Yong
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