linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support

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Date:	Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:26:19 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net>
Cc:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"ak@...ux.intel.com" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@...el.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Maria Dimakopoulou <maria.n.dimakopoulou@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support


* Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net> wrote:
> 
> > > So I notice PP1 (which is the GPU power on non-server chips)
> > > is not supported.
> > >
> > > Is that just for simplicity?
> > >
> > Does it work on specific models only? I bet so. How to detect those?
> 
> In general it is on the machines that don't support the DRAM measurements 
> (so the non-EP machines) but I don't know if there's a nice list anywhere.
> 
> Intel manuals say:
>    For a client platform, PP1 domain refers to the power plane of a 
>    specific device in the uncore. For server platforms, PP1 domain is not
>    supported,
> 
> usually PP1 I think maps to the embedded GPU.

It would indeed be nice to expose PP1 too via the same facility - 
Haswell and later spends some 40% of the CPU die on the integrated GPU 
and people end up using it.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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