https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Tuning-Performance/Determining-PMU-perfmon-version/m-p/1123983#M6223 <P><SPAN style="font-size: 1em;">I'm looking for the correct way to determine the PMU (perfmon) version in code. I am looking&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 1em;">at the Intel Perf Mon tools source code, and can see they extract the version by doing some bit fiddling in the cpuinfo.array[] - I'm trying to avoid replicating that in python. Alternatively, is there a mapping between processor type/version and PMU version? In other words, can I make an assumption about which &nbsp;PMU version is on the chip if I know the chip is a (for example)&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 1em;">Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 1em;">?</SPAN></P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Jim</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:40:02 GMT James_M_3 2016-07-13T16:40:02Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Tuning-Performance/Determining-PMU-perfmon-version/m-p/1123983#M6223 <P><SPAN style="font-size: 1em;">I'm looking for the correct way to determine the PMU (perfmon) version in code. I am looking&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 1em;">at the Intel Perf Mon tools source code, and can see they extract the version by doing some bit fiddling in the cpuinfo.array[] - I'm trying to avoid replicating that in python. Alternatively, is there a mapping between processor type/version and PMU version? In other words, can I make an assumption about which &nbsp;PMU version is on the chip if I know the chip is a (for example)&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 1em;">Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 1em;">?</SPAN></P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Jim</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:40:02 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Tuning-Performance/Determining-PMU-perfmon-version/m-p/1123983#M6223 James_M_3 2016-07-13T16:40:02Z