linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/10] x86/cpu: Consolidate APERF/MPERF code

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Date:   Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:39:05 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] x86/cpu: Consolidate APERF/MPERF code

Eric,

On Tue, Apr 19 2022 at 08:51, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 12:19 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>> It could be argued that not all APERF/MPERF capable systems have the
>> required BIOS information to enable frequency invariance support, but in
>> practice most of them do. So the APERF/MPERF sampling can be made
>> unconditional and just the frequency scale calculation for the scheduler
>> excluded.
>>
>> The following series consolidates that.
>>
>
> Thanks a lot for working on that Thomas.
>
> I am not sure I will be able to backport this to a Google prodkernel,
> as I guess there will be many merge conflicts.

:)

> Do you have by any chance this work available in a git branch ?

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git x86/amperf

Thanks,

        tglx