This patchkit improves the Skylake core PMU perf port - Fix problems with LBR freezing with a new APIC ack sequence - Improve performance and accuracy of the NMI handler with counter freezing - Improve sampling quality with cycles:pp
The last feature could be used on other CPUs too, but for now it's only enabled on Skylake. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/