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Intel Auto Count Reload & Clearwater Forest PMU Support Merged For Linux 6.16
The Linux kernel Performance Events changes were merged for the newly-opened Linux 6.16 cycle
The auto counter reload (ACR) feature takes samples when the relative rate of two or more events exceeds some threshold, which provides the fine-grained information at a low cost." The other notable Intel addition is adding support for the PMU found within the next-gen Xeon "Clearwater Forest" processors. New for Clearwater Forest is the ARCH Process Event-Based Sampling (TPEBS) feature and some minor additions around the Darkmont X cores.
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