[PATCH 1/3] Make KNC use full 40-bit width of counters

2012-10-17 Thread Vince Weaver
Early versions of KNC chips have a bug where bits above 32 were not properly set. We worked around this by only using the bottom 32 bits (out of 40 that should be available). It turns out this workaround breaks overflow handling. The buggy silicon will in theory never be used in production

[PATCH 1/3] Make KNC use full 40-bit width of counters

2012-10-17 Thread Vince Weaver
Early versions of KNC chips have a bug where bits above 32 were not properly set. We worked around this by only using the bottom 32 bits (out of 40 that should be available). It turns out this workaround breaks overflow handling. The buggy silicon will in theory never be used in production