Animesh K Trivedi1 <zrl...@ch.ibm.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm testing/using uncore support on a dual socket NehalemEX (Xeon E7520)
> box on 3.7-rc1.
> It shows me only 4 CBOXes under devices. Although the document (Uncore
> programming
> for 7500) says that there should be 8 CBOXes. Am I missing something?

The number of CBOXes depends on the number of CPU cores in the socket.
Each core has a CBOX.  You would only see 8 on a 8 core CPU.


> get a global view of LLC behaviour shouldn't I have to sum up the count of
> events from all
> physical processor's CBOXes.

Yes. Each BOX has its own counters.

-Andi

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