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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] perf/x86/intel: Use Intel family macros for core
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 04:15:25PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> It's also unclear what internal names matter.  For example is AMD 15h/60h
> "Carrizo" or "Excavator" or both?

Excavator is the core and Carrizo is the APU. I think of it as the
client part.

But this is exactly the problem: what name do we take? Also, sometimes
the core name is important (ISA supported) and sometimes the platform.
It depends on the feature.

Maybe a text file with more free formulations would be better.

...

> (why we need two different interfaces for RAPL is another thing, not
> to mention the fact that powercap you can read the values as a normal
> user but with perf you need to be root to read the exact same thing).

Sounds like it needs some cleaning ...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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