Re: Skylake minimal counts

Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.oprofile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 05:19:36PM +0100, Michael Petlan wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> During testing on a Skylake-SP, I have noticed that most of the Skylake
> events have "minimum:2000003" set, even for events that used to have much
> lower minimum counts on various older micro-architectures, such as Haswell,
> Ivy Bridge, etc.

With the perf kernel driver there isn't really any need for a minimum anymore.
perf has its own limiting mechanism that prevents DoS due to too many PMIs.

The data files the Intel files were generated from don't have a concept
of minimum, just "default". So it's really a reasonably default
in all the Intel files I submitted.

That's a more useful concept. So I would just redefine to field
to be default, and drop minimum checks.

-Andi

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