[Skiboot] [RFC PATCH 1/4] ibm-fsp/firenze: uncore header file definitions

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Apr 22 11:44:41 AEST 2015


Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> +/*
> + * Power8 has Nest Instrumentation support with which per-chip
> + * utilisation metrics like memory bandwidth, IO bandwidth and
> + * many other component metrics can be obtained. These Nest
> + * counters can be programmed via scoms or HW PORE Engine,
> + * called PORE_SLW_IMA.
> + *
> + * In the Linux kernel side, have used intel's "uncore" framework
> + * to plug the Power8 nest instrumentation support. For the
> + * consistency, have used "uncore" for in the variable/file names
> + * here for services provided by opal.
> + *

Why not just call it nest_pmu everywhere? I can't see anywhere that's
really forcing us to use uncore terminology.



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