On 04/25/2014 09:55 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 09:17:36PM +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote: >> On 04/24/2014 07:27 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:36:01PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: >>>>> Most of hardware specific codes in the Intel uncore driver are for >>>>> SandyBridge/IvyBridge/Haswell. Uncore subsystem in these CPUs are >>>>> similar. One module per CPU type means we have to duplicate lots of >>>>> code. I don't think it's a good idea. >>>>> >>>> Then, at least split nhm_ex from the rest. It is very big. >>> >>> Aren't the EX parts in general far more complex and different from the >>> EP parts? Or will the SNB/IVB/HSW-EX parts also be similar again? (this >>> would be a good thing). >> >> SNB/IVB/HSW-EX are almost identical to SNB/IVB/HSW-EP. > > Ah, good, sanity prevails! > >> NHM/WSM-EX are complete different from SNB/IVB/HSW-EX > > Yeah, NHM/WSM-EX are different from pretty much anything. > > Where do NHM/WSM-EP fall? I know they're radically different to the EX > parts but are they similar again to the SNB/IVB/HSW EP parts? >
the uncore driver does not support NHM/WSM-EP (I don't know the module numbers for NHM/WSM-EP, maybe I'm wrong) > If not we'd have 3 groups: > > NHM/WSM-EP > NHM/WSM-EX > SNB/IVB/HSW > I think we'd have: NHM/WSM-EX SNB/IVB/HSW-EP Desktop version of NHM/SNB/IVB/HSW Regards Yan, Zheng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
