Bug 548880 – sys-apps/intel-performance-counter-monitor - A better way to measure CPU utilization

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Brendan Horan 2015-05-08 00:39:30 UTC]

From upstream :
"The complexity of computing systems has tremendously increased over the last decades. Hierarchical cache subsystems, non-uniform memory, simultaneous multithreading and out-of-order execution have a huge impact on the performance and compute capacity of modern processors."

URL :
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-performance-counter-monitor-a-better-way-to-measure-cpu-utilization



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Brendan Horan 2015-05-08 00:46:40 UTC]

Intel requires you to accept the BSD licence on there download page.
So I made the user "fetch" this package, not sure if that is the correct thing to do.
Let me know if its not :)


I also added a new use flag "perf" that is just for this package.
It enables "DPCM_USE_PERF" options in GCC.
I added it to metadata.xml, also not sure if this is the correct way.
Happy to change if its not correct.
I will attach the sample metadata.xml file as well for reference.know

[Comment 2 Brendan Horan 2015-05-08 00:48:46 UTC]

Created attachment 402846 [details]
intel-performance-counter-monitor-2.8.ebuild

Attaching first ebuild version.

[Comment 3 Brendan Horan 2015-05-08 00:49:54 UTC]

Created attachment 402848 [details]
metadata.xml

Attaching sample metadata.xml for USE flags for this package.

[Comment 4 Brendan Horan 2015-05-10 03:51:19 UTC]

I am also happy and willing to proxy mantain this package.

[Comment 5 Brendan Horan 2015-05-14 02:36:36 UTC]

I need to fix where the src-url is getting the source.
Fetch seems wrong. May be possible to host source on disfiles mirrors

Also need to check if it requires any kernel settings 
^ from chats on IRC.

[Comment 6 Ulrich Müller 2015-05-15 09:30:39 UTC]

(In reply to Brendan Horan from comment #1)
> Intel requires you to accept the BSD licence on there download page.
> So I made the user "fetch" this package, not sure if that is the correct
> thing to do.
> Let me know if its not :)

It is distributed under the (3-clause) BSD license, so no fetch (or even mirror) restriction is needed here.

[Comment 7 Brendan Horan 2015-05-20 02:52:58 UTC]

Fixed SRC_URI.
Added "CONFIG_CHECK="X86_MSR""
Will update new ebuild

[Comment 8 Brendan Horan 2015-05-20 03:01:53 UTC]

Created attachment 403642 [details]
intel-performance-counter-monitor-2.8.ebuild

[Comment 9 Brendan Horan 2015-05-20 03:38:06 UTC]

Removed the use flag. Package needs it to be set to work.
Made the config check non fatal. 

Will update new ebuild

[Comment 10 Brendan Horan 2015-05-20 03:38:51 UTC]

Created attachment 403644 [details]
intel-performance-counter-monitor-2.8.ebuild

[Comment 11 Yixun Lan 2015-05-20 06:11:03 UTC]

+*intel-performance-counter-monitor-2.8 (20 May 2015)
+
+  20 May 2015; Yixun Lan <[e-mail]>
+  +intel-performance-counter-monitor-2.8.ebuild, +metadata.xml:
+  initial ebuild contributed by Brendan 'undersys' Horan