Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:02:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Vince Weaver <> | Subject | Re: perf tools miscellaneous questions |
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Francis Moreau wrote:
> Victor Jimenez <victor.javier@bsc.es> writes: > > [...] > > > If you are measuring last level cache misses, I would recommend you to > > use a memory intensive application/benchmark instead of /bin/true, as > > otherwise there can be a significant variation between two runs. > > I agree. > > But still with intensive application, I got the same results:
you're going to need to get your architectural manual for your processor and use raw events (not the kernel default ones) if you really want to find out what's going on. A tool like libpfm4 can help change the names to raw events for you.
Cache events are very tricky and they often don't return the values you expect. Hardware prefetch can cause some very non-intuitive things to happen, and the prefetch only affects certain levels of cache.
Vince
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