From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753604Ab0BIG5k (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:57:40 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f200.google.com ([209.85.221.200]:63601 "EHLO mail-qy0-f200.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752988Ab0BIG5i (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:57:38 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Hm1Cp0AeX+zKIftnYZFUb2X+0pGsqEayUM6KAJ/n9e2e9HtfEfrkWXrkFo6L7qdEF2 5KkdmM1E3bXnRiPtOGm+gJWdlJm9/M64iPzUDApqhfmJDINGO9UrrphQAnyD1lz9m62+ 2G7+06apwHMHVncApqv6/vHoquDuoGbMv1dpo= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100209042348.GA2558@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20100208184504.GB5130@lenovo> <20100209042348.GA2558@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:57:35 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC perf,x86] P4 PMU early draft From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Stephane Eranian , Frederic Weisbecker , Don Zickus , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2/9/10, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:45:04PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > >> The main problem in implementing P4 PMU is that it has much more >> restrictions for event to MSR mapping. So to fit into current >> perf_events model I made the following: > > Is there somewhere accessible on the web where I can read about the P4 > PMU? I'm interested to see if the constraint representation and > search I used on the POWER processors would be applicable. > > Paul. > I've been using intel sdm, from intel.com