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Cycles, Execution, Dcache – HP XC System 3.x Software User Manual

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NOTE:

AMD does not provide code-usable names for AMD Opteron processor events. In

addition, the names listed in this section are used for single-core and dual-core AMD Opteron
processors and may differ slightly from the event names used for native quad-core AMD Opteron
processors.

CPU

Displays the following CPU utilization percentages from the /proc/stat file:

Idle

: CPU utilization for idle cycles

System

: CPU utilization for system processes

User

: CPU utilization for user processes

IPC

Displays retired instructions per cycle.

FPC

Displays floating point operations retired per cycle.

Cycles

Displays the following statistics per unhalted clock cycle:

Far Transfer Resync

: DISPATCH_STALL_FAR_TRANSFER

Waiting for All quiet

: DISPATCH_STALL_QUIET_WAIT

Segment Load

: DISPATCH_STALL_SEG_LOAD

Serialization

: DISPATCH_STALL_SERIALIZATION

Branch Abort to Retire

: DISPATCH_STALL_FROM_BRANCH_ABORT

LS Full

: DISPATCH_STALL_LS

FPU Full

: DISPATCH_STALL_FPU

Reservation Station Full

: DISPATCH_STALL_RESERVE_STATION

Reorder Buffer Full

: RDISPATCH_STALL_EORDER_BUFFER

Execution

Displays the following events per unhalted instruction:

Dispatch Stalls

: DISPATCH_STALLS

Decoder Empty

: DECODER_EMPTY

Dispatching

: Unhalted Cycles - DISPATCH_STALLS - DECODER_EMPTY

Dcache

Displays the following types of data cache misses per retired instruction:

Retired Instructions

: Retired instructions (100%)

L1D Misses

: DATA_CACHE_REFILLS_FROM_L2_ALL

L2D Misses

: DATA_CACHE_REFILLS_FROM_LS_FROM.SYSTEM

Misses

: DATA_CACHE_MISSES

Dcache Fetches

: DATA_CACHE_FETCHES

Icache

Displays the following types of instruction cache misses per retired instruction:

Retired Instructions

: Retired instructions (100%)

L1I Misses

: ICACHE_REFILLS_FROM_SYSTEM

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