On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I'm interested in Ingo's comments on that argument as well but I don't feel the need to act like were are all in a kindergarten. You are two astonishing developers and I'm sure you can demonstrate that you can have a pure technical discussion on this topic as you did several times in the past. Regards, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/ http://mypage.vodafone.it/ -- 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
