Re: [RFC perf,x86] P4 PMU early draft
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Feb 08 2010 - 23:18:04 EST
* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> first of all the patches are NOT for any kind of inclusion. It's not ready
> yet. More likely I'm asking for glance review, ideas, criticism.
A quick question: does the code produce something on a real P4? (possibly
only running with a single event - but even that would be enough.)
> The main problem in implementing P4 PMU is that it has much more
> restrictions for event to MSR mapping. [...]
One possibly simpler approach might be to represent the P4 PMU via a maximum
_two_ generic events only.
Last i looked at the many P4 events, i've noticed that generally you can
create any two events. (with a few exceptions) Once you start trying to take
advantage of the more than a dozen seemingly separate counters, additional
non-trivial constraints apply.
So if we only allowed a maximum of _two_ generic events (like say a simple
Core2 has, so it's not a big restriction at all), we wouldnt have to map all
the constraints, we'd only have to encode the specific event-to-MSR details.
(which alone is quite a bit of work as well.)
We could also use the new constraints code to map them all, of course - it
will certainly be more complex to implement.
Hm?
Ingo
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