Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:54:58 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwpmc(4) changes to use 'mp_maxid' instead of 'mp_ncpus'. Message-ID: <20080316055458.GA87605@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <84dead720803142243r6c8cc68dm325e7fb925189fd@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080313180805.GA83406@dragon.NUXI.org> <200803131516.12284.jhb@freebsd.org> <84dead720803132232k15c3aad7pe59875f0c84e0c27@mail.gmail.com> <200803141431.53846.jhb@freebsd.org> <84dead720803142243r6c8cc68dm325e7fb925189fd@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:13:00AM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > FreeBSD has been trying to not be quite as i386-centric as it used .. > HWPMC is very x86 centric, for obvious reasons. What is the obvious reason? Many non-x86 CPU's have HW event counters. (I assume you're not throwing ia64 into the x64 bucket). -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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