Thanks! Are you aware of a complete beginners guide on how to send changes for review? I'm afraid I've only used the GitHub or company-internal workflows, so I'm not sure how to submit the attached change. On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 2:21 PM Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2/19/24 12:36, Rodrigo Queiro wrote: > > What do you think about removing the checks on the model number, and > > assuming that all processors with family == 6 support the Nehalem > > MSRs, including the SMI counter? Any user running a recent cyclictest > > on pre-Nehalem hardware could still run without --smi to prevent > > seeing bogus SMI counts. > > When I added that option the smi was a relatively new thing... nowadays I think > it is pretty standard... so simplifying it is a good thing. > > Nevertheless, the SMI counter is just part of the story. Most > of the hardware related latency problems goes outside of SMI "domain" > so... the best thing to do is to run rtla hwnoise (or hwlat) on > the hardware to detect hardware latencies. > > -- Daniel >
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