Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:01:59 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] perf-events: Add support for supplementary event registers v3 | From | Lin Ming <> |
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Lin Ming <lin@ming.vg> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: >>> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> >>> >>> Intel Nehalem/Westmere have a special OFFCORE_RESPONSE event >>> that can be used to monitor any offcore accesses from a core. >>> This is a very useful event for various tunings, and it's >>> also needed to implement the generic LLC-* events correctly. >>> >>> Unfortunately this event requires programming a mask in a separate >>> register. And worse this separate register is per core, not per >>> CPU thread. >> >> This "separate register" is MSR_OFFCORE_RSP_0, right? >> But from the SDM, MSR_OFFCORE_RSP_0 is "thread" scope, >> see SDM 3b, Appendix B.4 MSRS IN THE INTEL® MICROARCHITECTURE CODENAME NEHALEM >> >> Or am I missing some obvious thing? >> > The manual is wrong on this.
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