Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] perf,x86: add Intel RAPL PMU support

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 28 2013 - 07:26:36 EST



* Vince Weaver <vince@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Vince Weaver <vince@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > So I notice PP1 (which is the GPU power on non-server chips)
> > > is not supported.
> > >
> > > Is that just for simplicity?
> > >
> > Does it work on specific models only? I bet so. How to detect those?
>
> In general it is on the machines that don't support the DRAM measurements
> (so the non-EP machines) but I don't know if there's a nice list anywhere.
>
> Intel manuals say:
> For a client platform, PP1 domain refers to the power plane of a
> specific device in the uncore. For server platforms, PP1 domain is not
> supported,
>
> usually PP1 I think maps to the embedded GPU.

It would indeed be nice to expose PP1 too via the same facility -
Haswell and later spends some 40% of the CPU die on the integrated GPU
and people end up using it.

Thanks,

Ingo
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