Re: re-enable Nehalem raw Offcore-Events support

From: Vince Weaver
Date: Fri Apr 29 2011 - 21:53:23 EST


On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Generalization of offcore, NUMA memory events is very much possible and
> desirable, and Peter has posted an RFC patch that implements one form of it:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/22/281
>

OK, so I "reviewed" this patch.

It creates a "generalized" new event, that is only actually available on
Nehalem and Westmere. It's listed as unavailable for all other known
architectures.

How is this any better than just using the event by its actual name if you
happen to have a Nehalem-esque chip?

This is just pointless kernel bloat.

So here's my review:
NACK

Vince
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