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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 3/5] perf tools: sync addition of PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_PEER
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On 11/04/2022 11:26, German Gomez wrote:
> On 08/04/2022 20:53, Ali Saidi wrote:
>> Add a flag to the perf mem data struct to signal that a request caused a
>> cache-to-cache transfer of a line from a peer of the requestor and
>> wasn't sourced from a lower cache level. The line being moved from one
>> peer cache to another has latency and performance implications. On Arm64
>> Neoverse systems the data source can indicate a cache-to-cache transfer
>> but not if the line is dirty or clean, so instead of overloading HITM
>> define a new flag that indicates this type of transfer.
> I think it's fine to merge this and the previous commit rather than have
> two commits with the same msg.
>

I take it back. It has been pointed out to me that having the separation
is normal/ok. So my comment doesn't apply.

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