202405 Release
Release Notes
New Features
- Xeon 6E Processor Support: Added support for Xeon 6E processor (Sierra Forest/SRF). (Alexander Antonov, Gang Deng, Pavithran Pandiyan, Roman Dementiev)
- pcm-iio: Enabled pcm-iio for Sierra Forest (SRF) processors. (Alexander Antonov)
- Intel QAT Support: Added support for QAT Linux in-tree driver addressing issue#547. (Gang Deng)
- Meteor Lake Support: Added support for Meteor Lake processors. (Roman Dementiev)
- Intel PMT raw counter support in pcm-raw: Added support for Intel Platform Monitoring Technology Telemetry (Intel PMT) raw counters. (Roman Dementiev)
- Client CPU Energy Metrics: Support for client CPU energy metrics in Grafana. (Roman Dementiev)
- Colorful Display: Added --color option for colorful display in the command-line interface. (Roman Dementiev)
Improvements
- CPU Support: Support for more CPUs added for localMemoryRequestRatioMetric. (Roman Dementiev)
- Precise UPI Speed Detection: Improved UPI speed detection on SPR using UPI_SPEED_REGISTER. (Roman Dementiev)
- Metric Version 2: Made metric version 2 the default setting. (Roman Dementiev)
- New CONTRIBUTING.md: Added a CONTRIBUTING.md file to help guide new contributors. (Roman Dementiev)
Fixes
- Dashboard Graph: Replaced Graph with Timeseries for better visualization in the dashboard. (Vimal Kumar)
- Incorrect PMON IDs: Fixed incorrect PMON IDs for HCx stacks. (Alexander Antonov)
- Ubox PMU Declarations: Added declarations for ubox PMU. (Huang, Xiaojun)
- Indentation Alignment: Fixed indentation alignment issues in BuildRequires statements and corrected the Version and Url fields in pcm.spec. (Jon Kohler)
- Error Checking: Added error checking and validation to start-prometheus.sh and start.sh scripts. (Roman Dementiev)
- Crash on BDX: Fixed a crash on BDX when trying to program IRP or IIO PMU. (Roman Dementiev)
- Less Useful Metrics: Disabled less useful metrics to streamline performance monitoring metric display. (Roman Dementiev)