SKX_EVENTS(3CPC) CPU Performance Counters Library Functions SKX_EVENTS(3CPC)

skx_events — processor model specific performance counter events

This manual page describes events specific to the following Intel CPU models and is derived from Intel's perfmon data. For more information, please consult the Intel Software Developer's Manual or Intel's perfmon website.

CPU models described by this document:

The following events are supported:

Counts the number of times where store forwarding was prevented for a load operation. The most common case is a load blocked due to the address of memory access (partially) overlapping with a preceding uncompleted store. Note: See the table of not supported store forwards in the Optimization Guide.
The number of times that split load operations are temporarily blocked because all resources for handling the split accesses are in use.
Counts false dependencies in MOB when the partial comparison upon loose net check and dependency was resolved by the Enhanced Loose net mechanism. This may not result in high performance penalties. Loose net checks can fail when loads and stores are 4k aliased.
Counts demand data loads that caused a page walk of any page size (4K/2M/4M/1G). This implies it missed in all TLB levels, but the walk need not have completed.
Counts completed page walks (4K sizes) caused by demand data loads. This implies address translations missed in the DTLB and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts completed page walks (2M/4M sizes) caused by demand data loads. This implies address translations missed in the DTLB and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts completed page walks (1G sizes) caused by demand data loads. This implies address translations missed in the DTLB and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts completed page walks (all page sizes) caused by demand data loads. This implies it missed in the DTLB and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts 1 per cycle for each PMH that is busy with a page walk for a load. EPT page walk duration are excluded in Skylake microarchitecture.
Counts cycles when at least one PMH (Page Miss Handler) is busy with a page walk for a load.
Counts loads that miss the DTLB (Data TLB) and hit the STLB (Second level TLB).
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Core cycles the Resource allocator was stalled due to recovery from an earlier branch misprediction or machine clear event.
Core cycles the allocator was stalled due to recovery from earlier clear event for any thread running on the physical core (e.g. misprediction or memory nuke).
Cycles the issue-stage is waiting for front-end to fetch from resteered path following branch misprediction or machine clear events.
Counts cycles during which the Resource Allocation Table (RAT) does not issue any Uops to the reservation station (RS) for the current thread.
Counts the number of uops that the Resource Allocation Table (RAT) issues to the Reservation Station (RS).
Counts the number of Blend Uops issued by the Resource Allocation Table (RAT) to the reservation station (RS) in order to preserve upper bits of vector registers. Starting with the Skylake microarchitecture, these Blend uops are needed since every Intel SSE instruction executed in Dirty Upper State needs to preserve bits 128-255 of the destination register. For more information, refer to Mixing Intel AVX and Intel SSE Code section of the Optimization Guide.
Number of slow LEA uops being allocated. A uop is generally considered SlowLea if it has 3 sources (e.g. 2 sources + immediate) regardless if as a result of LEA instruction or not.
Cycles when divide unit is busy executing divide or square root operations. Accounts for integer and floating-point operations.
Counts the number of demand Data Read requests that miss L2 cache. Only not rejected loads are counted.
Counts the RFO (Read-for-Ownership) requests that miss L2 cache.
Counts L2 cache misses when fetching instructions.
Demand requests that miss L2 cache.
Counts requests from the L1/L2/L3 hardware prefetchers or Load software prefetches that miss L2 cache.
All requests that miss L2 cache.
Counts the number of demand Data Read requests, initiated by load instructions, that hit L2 cache
Counts the RFO (Read-for-Ownership) requests that hit L2 cache.
Counts L2 cache hits when fetching instructions, code reads.
Counts requests from the L1/L2/L3 hardware prefetchers or Load software prefetches that hit L2 cache.
Counts the number of demand Data Read requests (including requests from L1D hardware prefetchers). These loads may hit or miss L2 cache. Only non rejected loads are counted.
Counts the total number of RFO (read for ownership) requests to L2 cache. L2 RFO requests include both L1D demand RFO misses as well as L1D RFO prefetches.
Counts the total number of L2 code requests.
Demand requests to L2 cache.
Counts the total number of requests from the L2 hardware prefetchers.
All L2 requests.
Core cycles where the core was running with power-delivery for baseline license level 0. This includes non-AVX codes, SSE, AVX 128-bit, and low-current AVX 256-bit codes.
Core cycles where the core was running with power-delivery for license level 1. This includes high current AVX 256-bit instructions as well as low current AVX 512-bit instructions.
Core cycles where the core was running with power-delivery for license level 2 (introduced in Skylake Server michroarchtecture). This includes high current AVX 512-bit instructions.
Core cycles the out-of-order engine was throttled due to a pending power level request.
Counts core-originated cacheable requests that miss the L3 cache (Longest Latency cache). Requests include data and code reads, Reads-for-Ownership (RFOs), speculative accesses and hardware prefetches from L1 and L2. It does not include all misses to the L3.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL057

Counts core-originated cacheable requests to the L3 cache (Longest Latency cache). Requests include data and code reads, Reads-for-Ownership (RFOs), speculative accesses and hardware prefetches from L1 and L2. It does not include all accesses to the L3.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL057

Number of PREFETCHNTA instructions executed.
Number of PREFETCHT0 instructions executed.
Number of PREFETCHT1 or PREFETCHT2 instructions executed.
Number of PREFETCHW instructions executed.
This is an architectural event that counts the number of thread cycles while the thread is not in a halt state. The thread enters the halt state when it is running the HLT instruction. The core frequency may change from time to time due to power or thermal throttling. For this reason, this event may have a changing ratio with regards to wall clock time.
Core cycles when at least one thread on the physical core is not in halt state.
Counts when the Current Privilege Level (CPL) transitions from ring 1, 2 or 3 to ring 0 (Kernel).
Core crystal clock cycles when the thread is unhalted.
Core crystal clock cycles when at least one thread on the physical core is unhalted.
Core crystal clock cycles when at least one thread on the physical core is unhalted.
Core crystal clock cycles when the thread is unhalted.
Core crystal clock cycles when this thread is unhalted and the other thread is halted.
Core crystal clock cycles when this thread is unhalted and the other thread is halted.
Counts duration of L1D miss outstanding in cycles.
Counts duration of L1D miss outstanding, that is each cycle number of Fill Buffers (FB) outstanding required by Demand Reads. FB either is held by demand loads, or it is held by non-demand loads and gets hit at least once by demand. The valid outstanding interval is defined until the FB deallocation by one of the following ways: from FB allocation, if FB is allocated by demand from the demand Hit FB, if it is allocated by hardware or software prefetch.Note: In the L1D, a Demand Read contains cacheable or noncacheable demand loads, including ones causing cache-line splits and reads due to page walks resulted from any request type.
Cycles with L1D load Misses outstanding from any thread on physical core.
Number of times a request needed a FB (Fill Buffer) entry but there was no entry available for it. A request includes cacheable/uncacheable demands that are load, store or SW prefetch instructions.
Counts demand data stores that caused a page walk of any page size (4K/2M/4M/1G). This implies it missed in all TLB levels, but the walk need not have completed.
Counts completed page walks (4K sizes) caused by demand data stores. This implies address translations missed in the DTLB and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts completed page walks (2M/4M sizes) caused by demand data stores. This implies address translations missed in the DTLB and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts completed page walks (1G sizes) caused by demand data stores. This implies address translations missed in the DTLB and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts completed page walks (all page sizes) caused by demand data stores. This implies it missed in the DTLB and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts 1 per cycle for each PMH that is busy with a page walk for a store. EPT page walk duration are excluded in Skylake microarchitecture.
Counts cycles when at least one PMH (Page Miss Handler) is busy with a page walk for a store.
Stores that miss the DTLB (Data TLB) and hit the STLB (2nd Level TLB).
Counts all not software-prefetch load dispatches that hit the fill buffer (FB) allocated for the software prefetch. It can also be incremented by some lock instructions. So it should only be used with profiling so that the locks can be excluded by ASM (Assembly File) inspection of the nearby instructions.
Counts cycles for each PMH (Page Miss Handler) that is busy with an EPT (Extended Page Table) walk for any request type.
Counts L1D data line replacements including opportunistic replacements, and replacements that require stall-for-replace or block-for-replace.
Number of times a TSX line had a cache conflict.
Number of times a transactional abort was signaled due to a data capacity limitation for transactional reads or writes.
Number of times a TSX Abort was triggered due to a non-release/commit store to lock.
Number of times a TSX Abort was triggered due to commit but Lock Buffer not empty.
Number of times a TSX Abort was triggered due to release/commit but data and address mismatch.
Number of times a TSX Abort was triggered due to attempting an unsupported alignment from Lock Buffer.
Number of times we could not allocate Lock Buffer.
This event counts cycles during which the microcode scoreboard stalls happen.
Counts the number of times a class of instructions that may cause a transactional abort was executed. Since this is the count of execution, it may not always cause a transactional abort.
Unfriendly TSX abort triggered by a vzeroupper instruction.
Unfriendly TSX abort triggered by a nest count that is too deep.
RTM region detected inside HLE.
Counts the number of times an HLE XACQUIRE instruction was executed inside an RTM transactional region.
Counts end of periods where the Reservation Station (RS) was empty. Could be useful to precisely locate front-end Latency Bound issues.
Counts cycles during which the reservation station (RS) is empty for the thread.; Note: In ST-mode, not active thread should drive 0. This is usually caused by severely costly branch mispredictions, or allocator/FE issues.
Counts cycles when offcore outstanding Demand Data Read transactions are present in the super queue (SQ). A transaction is considered to be in the Offcore outstanding state between L2 miss and transaction completion sent to requestor (SQ de-allocation).
Counts the number of offcore outstanding Demand Data Read transactions in the super queue (SQ) every cycle. A transaction is considered to be in the Offcore outstanding state between L2 miss and transaction completion sent to requestor. See the corresponding Umask under OFFCORE_REQUESTS.Note: A prefetch promoted to Demand is counted from the promotion point.
Cycles with at least 6 offcore outstanding Demand Data Read transactions in uncore queue.
Counts the number of offcore outstanding Code Reads transactions in the super queue every cycle. The 'Offcore outstanding' state of the transaction lasts from the L2 miss until the sending transaction completion to requestor (SQ deallocation). See the corresponding Umask under OFFCORE_REQUESTS.
Counts the number of offcore outstanding Code Reads transactions in the super queue every cycle. The 'Offcore outstanding' state of the transaction lasts from the L2 miss until the sending transaction completion to requestor (SQ deallocation). See the corresponding Umask under OFFCORE_REQUESTS.
Counts the number of offcore outstanding RFO (store) transactions in the super queue (SQ) every cycle. A transaction is considered to be in the Offcore outstanding state between L2 miss and transaction completion sent to requestor (SQ de-allocation). See corresponding Umask under OFFCORE_REQUESTS.
Counts the number of offcore outstanding demand rfo Reads transactions in the super queue every cycle. The 'Offcore outstanding' state of the transaction lasts from the L2 miss until the sending transaction completion to requestor (SQ deallocation). See the corresponding Umask under OFFCORE_REQUESTS.
Counts cycles when offcore outstanding cacheable Core Data Read transactions are present in the super queue. A transaction is considered to be in the Offcore outstanding state between L2 miss and transaction completion sent to requestor (SQ de-allocation). See corresponding Umask under OFFCORE_REQUESTS.
Counts the number of offcore outstanding cacheable Core Data Read transactions in the super queue every cycle. A transaction is considered to be in the Offcore outstanding state between L2 miss and transaction completion sent to requestor (SQ de-allocation). See corresponding Umask under OFFCORE_REQUESTS.
Counts number of Offcore outstanding Demand Data Read requests that miss L3 cache in the superQ every cycle.
Cycles with at least 6 Demand Data Read requests that miss L3 cache in the superQ.
Cycles with at least 1 Demand Data Read requests who miss L3 cache in the superQ.
Counts cycles during which uops are being delivered to Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) from the MITE path. Counting includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ.
Counts the number of uops delivered to Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) from the MITE path. Counting includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ. This also means that uops are not being delivered from the Decode Stream Buffer (DSB).
Counts cycles during which uops are being delivered to Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) from the Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) path. Counting includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ.
Counts the number of uops delivered to Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) from the Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) path. Counting includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ.
Counts cycles during which uops initiated by Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) are being delivered to Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) while the Microcode Sequencer (MS) is busy. Counting includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ.
Counts the number of cycles uops were delivered to Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) from the Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) path. Count includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ.
Counts the number of cycles 4 uops were delivered to Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) from the Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) path. Count includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ.
Counts the number of uops initiated by MITE and delivered to Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) while the Microcode Sequencer (MS) is busy. Counting includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ.
Counts the number of cycles uops were delivered to the Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) from the MITE (legacy decode pipeline) path. Counting includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ. During these cycles uops are not being delivered from the Decode Stream Buffer (DSB).
Counts the number of cycles 4 uops were delivered to the Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) from the MITE (legacy decode pipeline) path. Counting includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ. During these cycles uops are not being delivered from the Decode Stream Buffer (DSB).
Counts cycles during which uops are being delivered to Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) while the Microcode Sequencer (MS) is busy. Counting includes uops that may 'bypass' the IDQ. Uops maybe initiated by Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) or MITE.
Counts the total number of uops delivered by the Microcode Sequencer (MS). Any instruction over 4 uops will be delivered by the MS. Some instructions such as transcendentals may additionally generate uops from the MS.
Number of switches from DSB (Decode Stream Buffer) or MITE (legacy decode pipeline) to the Microcode Sequencer.
Cycles where a code line fetch is stalled due to an L1 instruction cache miss. The legacy decode pipeline works at a 16 Byte granularity.
Instruction fetch tag lookups that hit in the instruction cache (L1I). Counts at 64-byte cache-line granularity.
Instruction fetch tag lookups that miss in the instruction cache (L1I). Counts at 64-byte cache-line granularity.
Cycles where a code fetch is stalled due to L1 instruction cache tag miss.
Counts page walks of any page size (4K/2M/4M/1G) caused by a code fetch. This implies it missed in the ITLB and further levels of TLB, but the walk need not have completed.
Counts completed page walks (4K page sizes) caused by a code fetch. This implies it missed in the ITLB (Instruction TLB) and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts completed page walks (2M/4M page sizes) caused by a code fetch. This implies it missed in the ITLB (Instruction TLB) and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts completed page walks (1G page sizes) caused by a code fetch. This implies it missed in the ITLB (Instruction TLB) and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts completed page walks (all page sizes) caused by a code fetch. This implies it missed in the ITLB (Instruction TLB) and further levels of TLB. The page walk can end with or without a fault.
Counts 1 per cycle for each PMH (Page Miss Handler) that is busy with a page walk for an instruction fetch request. EPT page walk duration are excluded in Skylake michroarchitecture.
Instruction fetch requests that miss the ITLB and hit the STLB.
Counts cycles that the Instruction Length decoder (ILD) stalls occurred due to dynamically changing prefix length of the decoded instruction (by operand size prefix instruction 0x66, address size prefix instruction 0x67 or REX.W for Intel64). Count is proportional to the number of prefixes in a 16B-line. This may result in a three-cycle penalty for each LCP (Length changing prefix) in a 16-byte chunk.
Counts cycles FE delivered 4 uops or Resource Allocation Table (RAT) was stalling FE.
Cycles with less than 3 uops delivered by the front-end.
Cycles with less than 2 uops delivered by the front-end.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles when less than 1 uop is delivered to Resource Allocation Table (RAT). IDQ_Uops_Not_Delivered.core >= 3.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles when no uops are delivered to Resource Allocation Table (RAT). IDQ_Uops_Not_Delivered.core =4.
Counts the number of uops not delivered to Resource Allocation Table (RAT) per thread adding 4 x when Resource Allocation Table (RAT) is not stalled and Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) delivers x uops to Resource Allocation Table (RAT) (where x belongs to {0,1,2,3}). Counting does not cover cases when: a. IDQ-Resource Allocation Table (RAT) pipe serves the other thread. b. Resource Allocation Table (RAT) is stalled for the thread (including uop drops and clear BE conditions). c. Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) delivers four uops.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles during which at least one uop is dispatched from the Reservation Station (RS) to port 0.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles during which at least one uop is dispatched from the Reservation Station (RS) to port 1.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles during which at least one uop is dispatched from the Reservation Station (RS) to port 2.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles during which at least one uop is dispatched from the Reservation Station (RS) to port 3.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles during which at least one uop is dispatched from the Reservation Station (RS) to port 4.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles during which at least one uop is dispatched from the Reservation Station (RS) to port 5.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles during which at least one uop is dispatched from the Reservation Station (RS) to port 6.
Counts, on the per-thread basis, cycles during which at least one uop is dispatched from the Reservation Station (RS) to port 7.
Counts resource-related stall cycles.
Counts allocation stall cycles caused by the store buffer (SB) being full. This counts cycles that the pipeline back-end blocked uop delivery from the front-end.
Cycles while L2 cache miss demand load is outstanding.
Cycles while L3 cache miss demand load is outstanding.
Total execution stalls.
Execution stalls while L2 cache miss demand load is outstanding.
Execution stalls while L3 cache miss demand load is outstanding.
Cycles while L1 cache miss demand load is outstanding.
Execution stalls while L1 cache miss demand load is outstanding.
Cycles while memory subsystem has an outstanding load.
Execution stalls while memory subsystem has an outstanding load.
Counts cycles during which no uops were executed on all ports and Reservation Station (RS) was not empty.
Counts cycles during which a total of 1 uop was executed on all ports and Reservation Station (RS) was not empty.
Counts cycles during which a total of 2 uops were executed on all ports and Reservation Station (RS) was not empty.
Cycles total of 3 uops are executed on all ports and Reservation Station (RS) was not empty.
Cycles total of 4 uops are executed on all ports and Reservation Station (RS) was not empty.
Cycles where the Store Buffer was full and no outstanding load.
Number of uops delivered to the back-end by the LSD(Loop Stream Detector).
Counts the cycles when at least one uop is delivered by the LSD (Loop-stream detector).
This event counts the number of the Decode Stream Buffer (DSB)-to-MITE switches including all misses because of missing Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) cache and u-arch forced misses. Note: Invoking MITE requires two or three cycles delay.
Counts Decode Stream Buffer (DSB)-to-MITE switch true penalty cycles. These cycles do not include uops routed through because of the switch itself, for example, when Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) pre-allocation is unavailable, or Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) is full. SBD-to-MITE switch true penalty cycles happen after the merge mux (MM) receives Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) Sync-indication until receiving the first MITE uop. MM is placed before Instruction Decode Queue (IDQ) to merge uops being fed from the MITE and Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) paths. Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) inserts the Sync-indication whenever a Decode Stream Buffer (DSB)-to-MITE switch occurs.Penalty: A Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) hit followed by a Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) miss can cost up to six cycles in which no uops are delivered to the IDQ. Most often, such switches from the Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) to the legacy pipeline cost 02 cycles.
Counts the number of flushes of the big or small ITLB pages. Counting include both TLB Flush (covering all sets) and TLB Set Clear (set-specific).
Counts the Demand Data Read requests sent to uncore. Use it in conjunction with OFFCORE_REQUESTS_OUTSTANDING to determine average latency in the uncore.
Counts both cacheable and non-cacheable code read requests.
Counts the demand RFO (read for ownership) requests including regular RFOs, locks, ItoM.
Counts the demand and prefetch data reads. All Core Data Reads include cacheable 'Demands' and L2 prefetchers (not L3 prefetchers). Counting also covers reads due to page walks resulted from any request type.
Demand Data Read requests who miss L3 cache.
Counts memory transactions reached the super queue including requests initiated by the core, all L3 prefetches, page walks, etc..
Cycles where at least 4 uops were executed per-thread.
Cycles where at least 3 uops were executed per-thread.
Cycles where at least 2 uops were executed per-thread.
Cycles where at least 1 uop was executed per-thread.
Counts cycles during which no uops were dispatched from the Reservation Station (RS) per thread.
Number of uops to be executed per-thread each cycle.
Number of uops executed from any thread.
Cycles with no micro-ops executed from any thread on physical core.
Cycles at least 4 micro-op is executed from any thread on physical core.
Cycles at least 3 micro-op is executed from any thread on physical core.
Cycles at least 2 micro-op is executed from any thread on physical core.
Cycles at least 1 micro-op is executed from any thread on physical core.
Counts the number of x87 uops executed.
Counts the number of cases when the offcore requests buffer cannot take more entries for the core. This can happen when the superqueue does not contain eligible entries, or when L1D writeback pending FIFO requests is full.Note: Writeback pending FIFO has six entries.
Counts the number of DTLB flush attempts of the thread-specific entries.
Counts the number of any STLB flush attempts (such as entire, VPID, PCID, InvPage, CR3 write, etc.).
Counts the number of instructions (EOMs) retired. Counting covers macro-fused instructions individually (that is, increments by two).

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091, SKL044

A version of INST_RETIRED that allows for a more unbiased distribution of samples across instructions retired. It utilizes the Precise Distribution of Instructions Retired (PDIR) feature to mitigate some bias in how retired instructions get sampled.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091, SKL044

Number of cycles using an always true condition applied to PEBS instructions retired event. (inst_ret< 16)

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091, SKL044

Number of times a microcode assist is invoked by HW other than FP-assist. Examples include AD (page Access Dirty) and AVX* related assists.
Number of cycles using always true condition (uops_ret < 16) applied to non PEBS uops retired event.
This event counts cycles without actually retired uops.
Counts the retirement slots used.
Counts the number of macro-fused uops retired. (non precise)
Number of machine clears (nukes) of any type.
Counts the number of memory ordering Machine Clears detected. Memory Ordering Machine Clears can result from one of the following:a. memory disambiguation,b. external snoop, orc. cross SMT-HW-thread snoop (stores) hitting load buffer.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL089

Counts self-modifying code (SMC) detected, which causes a machine clear.
Counts all (macro) branch instructions retired.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091

This event counts conditional branch instructions retired.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091

This event counts both direct and indirect near call instructions retired.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091

This is a precise version of BR_INST_RETIRED.ALL_BRANCHES that counts all (macro) branch instructions retired.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091

This event counts return instructions retired.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091

This event counts not taken branch instructions retired.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091

This event counts not taken branch instructions retired.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091

This event counts taken branch instructions retired.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091

This event counts far branch instructions retired.

The following errata may apply to this: SKL091

Counts all the retired branch instructions that were mispredicted by the processor. A branch misprediction occurs when the processor incorrectly predicts the destination of the branch. When the misprediction is discovered at execution, all the instructions executed in the wrong (speculative) path must be discarded, and the processor must start fetching from the correct path.
This event counts mispredicted conditional branch instructions retired.
Counts both taken and not taken retired mispredicted direct and indirect near calls, including both register and memory indirect.
This is a precise version of BR_MISP_RETIRED.ALL_BRANCHES that counts all mispredicted macro branch instructions retired.
Number of near branch instructions retired that were mispredicted and taken.
Number of SSE/AVX computational scalar double precision floating-point instructions retired; some instructions will count twice as noted below. Each count represents 1 computation. Applies to SSE* and AVX* scalar double precision floating-point instructions: ADD SUB MUL DIV MIN MAX RCP14 RSQRT14 SQRT DPP FM(N)ADD/SUB. DPP and FM(N)ADD/SUB instructions count twice as they perform 2 calculations per element.
Number of SSE/AVX computational scalar single precision floating-point instructions retired; some instructions will count twice as noted below. Each count represents 1 computation. Applies to SSE* and AVX* scalar single precision floating-point instructions: ADD SUB MUL DIV MIN MAX RCP14 RSQRT14 SQRT DPP FM(N)ADD/SUB. DPP and FM(N)ADD/SUB instructions count twice as they perform 2 calculations per element.
Number of SSE/AVX computational 128-bit packed double precision floating-point instructions retired; some instructions will count twice as noted below. Each count represents 2 computation operations, one for each element. Applies to SSE* and AVX* packed double precision floating-point instructions: ADD SUB HADD HSUB SUBADD MUL DIV MIN MAX SQRT RSQRT14 RCP14 DPP FM(N)ADD/SUB. DPP and FM(N)ADD/SUB instructions count twice as they perform 2 calculations per element.
Number of SSE/AVX computational 128-bit packed single precision floating-point instructions retired; some instructions will count twice as noted below. Each count represents 4 computation operations, one for each element. Applies to SSE* and AVX* packed single precision floating-point instructions: ADD SUB MUL DIV MIN MAX RCP14 RSQRT14 SQRT DPP FM(N)ADD/SUB. DPP and FM(N)ADD/SUB instructions count twice as they perform 2 calculations per element.
Number of SSE/AVX computational 256-bit packed double precision floating-point instructions retired; some instructions will count twice as noted below. Each count represents 4 computation operations, one for each element. Applies to SSE* and AVX* packed double precision floating-point instructions: ADD SUB MUL DIV MIN MAX RCP14 RSQRT14 SQRT DPP FM(N)ADD/SUB. DPP and FM(N)ADD/SUB instructions count twice as they perform 2 calculations per element.
Number of SSE/AVX computational 256-bit packed single precision floating-point instructions retired; some instructions will count twice as noted below. Each count represents 8 computation operations, one for each element. Applies to SSE* and AVX* packed single precision floating-point instructions: ADD SUB MUL DIV MIN MAX RCP14 RSQRT14 SQRT DPP FM(N)ADD/SUB. DPP and FM(N)ADD/SUB instructions count twice as they perform 2 calculations per element.
Number of SSE/AVX computational 512-bit packed double precision floating-point instructions retired; some instructions will count twice as noted below. Each count represents 8 computation operations, one for each element. Applies to SSE* and AVX* packed double precision floating-point instructions: ADD SUB MUL DIV MIN MAX RCP14 RSQRT14 SQRT DPP FM(N)ADD/SUB. DPP and FM(N)ADD/SUB instructions count twice as they perform 8 calculations per element.
Number of SSE/AVX computational 512-bit packed single precision floating-point instructions retired; some instructions will count twice as noted below. Each count represents 16 computation operations, one for each element. Applies to SSE* and AVX* packed single precision floating-point instructions: ADD SUB MUL DIV MIN MAX RCP14 RSQRT14 SQRT DPP FM(N)ADD/SUB. DPP and FM(N)ADD/SUB instructions count twice as they perform 16 calculations per element.
Number of times we entered an HLE region. Does not count nested transactions.
Number of times HLE commit succeeded.
Number of times HLE abort was triggered.
Number of times an HLE execution aborted due to various memory events (e.g., read/write capacity and conflicts).
Number of times an HLE execution aborted due to hardware timer expiration.
Number of times an HLE execution aborted due to HLE-unfriendly instructions and certain unfriendly events (such as AD assists etc.).
Number of times an HLE execution aborted due to incompatible memory type.
Number of times an HLE execution aborted due to unfriendly events (such as interrupts).
Number of times we entered an RTM region. Does not count nested transactions.
Number of times RTM commit succeeded.
Number of times RTM abort was triggered.
Number of times an RTM execution aborted due to various memory events (e.g. read/write capacity and conflicts).
Number of times an RTM execution aborted due to uncommon conditions.
Number of times an RTM execution aborted due to HLE-unfriendly instructions.
Number of times an RTM execution aborted due to incompatible memory type.
Number of times an RTM execution aborted due to none of the previous 4 categories (e.g. interrupt).
Counts cycles with any input and output SSE or x87 FP assist. If an input and output assist are detected on the same cycle the event increments by 1.
Counts the number of hardware interruptions received by the processor.
Increments when an entry is added to the Last Branch Record (LBR) array (or removed from the array in case of RETURNs in call stack mode). The event requires LBR enable via IA32_DEBUGCTL MSR and branch type selection via MSR_LBR_SELECT.
Number of retired PAUSE instructions (that do not end up with a VMExit to the VMM; TSX aborted Instructions may be counted). This event is not supported on first SKL and KBL products.
Retired load instructions that miss the STLB.
Retired store instructions that miss the STLB.
Retired load instructions with locked access.
Counts retired load instructions that split across a cacheline boundary.
Counts retired store instructions that split across a cacheline boundary.
All retired load instructions.
All retired store instructions.
Counts retired load instructions with at least one uop that hit in the L1 data cache. This event includes all SW prefetches and lock instructions regardless of the data source.
Retired load instructions with L2 cache hits as data sources.
Counts retired load instructions with at least one uop that hit in the L3 cache.
Counts retired load instructions with at least one uop that missed in the L1 cache.
Retired load instructions missed L2 cache as data sources.
Counts retired load instructions with at least one uop that missed in the L3 cache.
Counts retired load instructions with at least one uop was load missed in L1 but hit FB (Fill Buffers) due to preceding miss to the same cache line with data not ready.
Retired load instructions which data sources were L3 hit and cross-core snoop missed in on-pkg core cache.
Retired load instructions which data sources were L3 and cross-core snoop hits in on-pkg core cache.
Retired load instructions which data sources were HitM responses from shared L3.
Retired load instructions which data sources were hits in L3 without snoops required.
Retired load instructions which data sources missed L3 but serviced from local DRAM.
Retired load instructions which data sources missed L3 but serviced from remote dram
Retired load instructions whose data sources was remote HITM.
Retired load instructions whose data sources was forwarded from a remote cache.
Retired instructions with at least 1 uncacheable load or lock.
Counts the number of times the front-end is resteered when it finds a branch instruction in a fetch line. This occurs for the first time a branch instruction is fetched or when the branch is not tracked by the BPU (Branch Prediction Unit) anymore.
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Counts L2 writebacks that access L2 cache.
Counts the number of L2 cache lines filling the L2. Counting does not cover rejects.
Counts the number of lines that are silently dropped by L2 cache when triggered by an L2 cache fill. These lines are typically in Shared state. A non-threaded event.
Counts the number of lines that are evicted by L2 cache when triggered by an L2 cache fill. Those lines can be either in modified state or clean state. Modified lines may either be written back to L3 or directly written to memory and not allocated in L3. Clean lines may either be allocated in L3 or dropped.
This event is deprecated. Refer to new event L2_LINES_OUT.USELESS_HWPF
Counts the number of lines that have been hardware prefetched but not used and now evicted by L2 cache
Counts the number of cache line split locks sent to the uncore.
Counts number of cache lines that are allocated and written back to L3 with the intention that they are more likely to be reused shortly.
Counts number of cache lines that are dropped and not written back to L3 as they are deemed to be less likely to be reused shortly.

cpc(3CPC)

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June 18, 2018 OmniOS