linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86, amd: add accessor for number of cores per compute unit

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Message-ID: <55E455E8.1060208@roeck-us.net>
Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 06:26:00 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	lm-sensors@...sensors.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org,
	Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@...glemail.com>,
	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@....com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>, Tony Li <tony.li@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86, amd: add accessor for number of cores per
 compute unit

On 08/31/2015 01:38 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:19:14AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> So let me withdraw my ack: the much more important question that I
>>> missed first time around, why is this reporting feature living in
>>> hwmon, not in perf? We have energy reporting facilities in perf that
>>> this should be synced to.
>>
>> Because there's already fam15h_power driver which is exactly for that.
>> Making it part of perf is then a question of cat-ting the same sysfs
>> file twice, at the beginning and at the end of the trace, which is
>> trivial.
>
> That don't make sense.
>
> Looking at the BKDG Fam 15h 60h-6Fh these MSRs are per compute unit.
> This means you can do much finer grained measurements than system wide
> -- which is all hwmon seems capable of.
>

Is it ? Why ?

Guenter

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