Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf/x86/rapl: Add support for Intel Meteor Lake

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jan 06 2023 - 06:12:05 EST


On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 11:56:18AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> It's a trade-off in any case: there's a point where quirk flags or even
> feature flags become harder to read and harder to maintain than cleanly
> separated per model driver functions.

Yeah, no, singular: a synthetic feature *flag*: X86_FEATURE_RAPL.

cpu/intel.c can set it and driver can test it.

Everything else inside the driver.

Until Intel can get their act together and actually do a CPUID bit like AMD. :-P

But when you think about it, whether the model matching happens in the driver or
in cpu/intel.c doesn't matter a whole lot.

All that matters is, they should finally give it a CPUID bit.

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