[Skiboot] [PATCH v5 0/9]OPAL support for Nest instrumentation

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Sep 28 14:20:20 AEST 2015



On Friday 25 September 2015 07:24 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>> Patchset adds support for Nest instrumentation services
>> in OPAL. Power8 has Nest instrumentation enabled with which
>> per-chip metrics like memory bandwidth, Powerbus, Xlink and
>> Alink metrics can be obtained.
> I've heard things about the hardware possibly having some issues? What's
> the status with this?

We dont have any hardware issues related to this feature, but due
to a regression bug in PTS (PORE Thread scheduler), the feature got
disabled and we are in the process of enabling the feature.

Maddy





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