* stephane eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's also more generic x86 support: all 4 generic PMCs of Nehalem > > / Core i7 are supported - i've run 4 instances of KernelTop and they > > used up four separate PMCs. > > Core/Atom have 5 counters, Nehalem has 7. Why are you not using all of > them already? no, Nehalem has 4 generic purpose PMCs and 3 fixed-purpose PMCs (7 total), Core/Atom has 2 generic PMCs and 3 fixed-purpose PMCs (5 total). Saying that it has 7 is misleading. (and even the generic PMCs have constraints) Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
