Re: [PATCH V6 2/5] perf/x86/kvm: Avoid unnecessary work in guest filtering

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Feb 04 2019 - 11:15:31 EST


On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 10:43:41AM -0500, Liang, Kan wrote:
> > --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
> > @@ -1628,6 +1628,7 @@ void __init intel_ds_init(void)
> > x86_pmu.bts = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_BTS);
> > x86_pmu.pebs = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PEBS);
> > x86_pmu.pebs_buffer_size = PEBS_BUFFER_SIZE;
> > + x86_pmu.pebs_no_isolation = 1;
>
> We will submit the Icelake support soon (probably next week).
> That will be a problem for Icelake.

We can have ICL set it to 0 explicitly, but explicitly setting it to 1
_11_ times is just silly.

Also, what perfmon version will ICL have? If it were to be 5 we could
key off of that.