On Nov 21, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Kumar Gala wrote: >> On Nov 21, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Kumar Gala wrote: >>>> On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Scott Wood wrote: >>>>> Given that the instruction is meant to be a performance >>>>> enhancement, >>>>> we should probably warn the first few times it's emulated, so >>>>> the user >>>>> knows they should change their toolchain setup if possible. >>>> >>>> The same is true of mcrxr, popcntb, and possibly string ld/st. >>>> >>>> Feel free to submit a patch that warns about their usage. >> >> How about some per processor counters in sysfs under the processor. > > Per processor? That means it has to be per_cpu, which sounds a bit > like > overkill to me.
I can probably live with global, not sure that would work with sysfs. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
