From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:22:25 +0100 > > * David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:02:46 +0100 > > > > > > > > * 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), > > ... > > > Saying that it has 7 is misleading. > > > > Even you just did. > > which portion of my point stressing the general purpose attribute was > unclear to you? I'm just teasing you because you picked a trite point from stephane's email instead of the meat later on, which I would have found more interesting to hear you comment on. -- 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
