[PATCH v5 2/5] perf: Add SNOOP_PEER flag to perf mem data struct

Ali Saidi alisaidi at amazon.com
Fri Apr 22 11:49:34 PDT 2022


On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:43:28, Kan Liang wrote:
> On 4/8/2022 3:53 PM, Ali Saidi wrote:
> > Add a flag to the perf mem data struct to signal that a request caused a
> > cache-to-cache transfer of a line from a peer of the requestor and
> > wasn't sourced from a lower cache level.
> 
> It sounds similar to the Forward state. Why can't the 
> PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_FWD be reused?

Is there a definition of SNOOPX_FWD i can refer to? Happy to use this instead if
the semantics align between architectures.

Thanks,

Ali




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