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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:09:16 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: re-enable Nehalem raw Offcore-Events support
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> See the problem here?  Going general event first makes it seriously 
> inconvenient to test and so noone is going to do it for you because it's 
> such a pain.  RAW first is the way to go.

Or you build your patch back in each time.

Lots of us don't run a Linus kernel. Mine gets several patches each
update which mean the disk performance is typically a few percent faster
than the upstream one etc.

Alan
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