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Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG

From David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG
Date 2016-08-04 19:40 +0200
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>> Introduce the flag PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG, useful for uncore events, that
>> allows a PMU to signal the generic perf code that an event is readable
>> on the current CPU if the event is:
>>   - active in a CPU in the same package as the current CPU (local CPU)
>
> Ok that I get..
>
>>   - not active but is attached to a CPU (i.e. event->cpu != -1) in the
>>   same package as the current CPU.
>
> but this, not so much. Why would you want to read an inactive counter?

Uncore counters are active even if its event is not.

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[PATCH 0/3] remove unnecessary IPI reading uncore events David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2016-08-02 05:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3/3] perf/x86: use PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG in uncore events David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2016-08-02 05:20 +0200
  [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2016-08-02 05:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and  PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-08-04 17:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2016-08-04 19:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and  PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-08-04 17:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and  PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-08-04 19:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2016-08-04 19:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2016-08-04 19:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf/core: introduce pmu_event_flags and  PMUEF_READ_CPU_PKG Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-08-04 17:50 +0200
  [PATCH 1/3] perf/core: check return value of perf_event_read IPI David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2016-08-02 06:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] remove unnecessary IPI reading uncore events Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2016-08-02 17:30 +0200

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