Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86, amd: add accessor for number of cores per compute unit

[Guenter Roeck]

On 08/31/2015 01:38 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:19:14AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > So let me withdraw my ack: the much more important question that I
> > > missed first time around, why is this reporting feature living in
> > > hwmon, not in perf? We have energy reporting facilities in perf that
> > > this should be synced to.
> >
> > Because there's already fam15h_power driver which is exactly for that.
> > Making it part of perf is then a question of cat-ting the same sysfs
> > file twice, at the beginning and at the end of the trace, which is
> > trivial.
>
> That don't make sense.
>
> Looking at the BKDG Fam 15h 60h-6Fh these MSRs are per compute unit.
> This means you can do much finer grained measurements than system wide
> -- which is all hwmon seems capable of.

Is it ? Why ?

Guenter

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