Closed FabianSchuetze closed 5 months ago
Thank you for the kind words, @FabianSchuetze.
Yeah, I think you're right. Alderlake and newer gens require a more recent kernel and perf
tool.
I have i7-1260P with kernel 6.2.0-37-generic and it seems to work. And now it prints L1 and L2 metrics.
I guess I need to add a comment about that in the book.
Added a TODO in the text: https://github.com/dendibakh/perf-book/commit/d101edf87beb5f7ce6eac679930ebd08396f1aaa
Thanks for the clarification and adding the TODO. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for this wonderful book. It's a pleasure to read it and there's a lot to learn from it.
Section 6.1.1 paragraph "Step1: Identify the Bottleneck" mentions:
and that the benchmark was run with:
Is this correct or could further clarification be helpful?
I cannot run the example because I receive the error
System does not support topdown
. I have the following configuration:There's also a stackoverflow post mentioning that topdown is only available for Alderlake on Linux 6.5