* Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> Prefetch and simluated adcx/adox from above:
>  Performance counter stats for './test.sh' (20 runs):
> 
>         35,704,331 L1-dcache-load-misses                                      
>    ( +-  0.07% ) [75.00%]
>                  0 L1-dcache-prefetches                                       
>   [75.00%]
>     19,751,409,264 cycles                    #    0.000 GHz                   
>    ( +-  0.59% ) [75.00%]
>         34,850,056 branch-misses                                              
>    ( +-  1.29% ) [75.00%]
> 
>        7.768602160 seconds time elapsed                                       
>    ( +-  1.38% )

btw., you might also want to try measuring only the basics:

   -e cycles -e instructions -e branches -e branch-misses

that should give you 100% in the last column and should also allow 
you to double check whether all the PMU counts are correct: is it 
the expected number of instructions, expected number of branches, 
expected number of branch-misses, etc.

Then you can remove branch stats and add just L1-dcache stats - and 
still be 100% covered:

   -e cycles -e instructions -e L1-dcache-loads -e L1-dcache-load-misses

etc.

Just so that you can trust what the PMU tells you. Prefetch counts 
are sometimes off, they might include speculative activities, etc.

Thanks,

        Ingo
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