On 03/03/2014 12:23 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
Hmm, so based on Andi's reply, I am assuming you are running on a Westmere
(or Nehalem) due to the lack of mem-stores.
If you don't have mem-stores, this tool isn't going to work. The tool can
only detect contention when sampling reads _and_ writes to the same
addresses.
On these CPUs you could simply sample on HITM. You won't get addresses,
but at least IPs and call stacks.
-Andi
If you only sample on the HITMs then you don't get the store misses. That means you'll
not be able to detect who is simultaneously tugging on the same cache lines. That gives
up much of the value of "perf c2c".
As we developed this, we ended up settling on Ivy Bridge to get the behavior we
wanted.
Joe
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