On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Bhavishya Goel <bhavishya.g...@gmail.com>wrote:
> With the kernel version 3.11-rc6, I am able to get the intx attribute
> (events within transactions) working. But there seems to be some problem
> with intxcp attribute (events within transactions - events within aborted
> transactions). This is what I get now:
>
> task -i -e
> UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES,UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES:intx,UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES:intxcp
> ./cmd
>
> 22 020 143 037 UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES (0,00% scaling, ena=9 670 910
> 328, run=9 670 910 328)
> 14 974 191 218 UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES:intx (0,00% scaling, ena=9 670
> 910 328, run=9 670 910 328)
> 19 240 174 502 UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES:intxcp (0,00% scaling, ena=9 670
> 910 328, run=9 670 910 328)
>
> Note that the value for UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES:intxcp is greater than for
> UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES:intx which as per my understanding is not possible.
> The UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES and UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES:intx values match what I
> get from Intel's PCM-TSX tool.
>
>
> intxcp means: do not count cycles from aborted transactions. So what
happens on an aborted transaction
is that the count is rolled back to what it was when entering the
transaction. As such, it cannot be
greater than unhalted_core_cycles but it can be greater than
unhalted_core_cycles:intx.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Stephane Eranian <eran...@googlemail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Bhavishya Goel <
>> bhavishya.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, I am using version 3.10.0. I will try with version 3.11-rc6. Thanks.
>>> :)
>>>
>>>
>>> 3.10 is not sufficient. HSW support went in 3.11
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Stephane Eranian <
>>> eran...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Bhavishya Goel <
>>>> bhavishya.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to use the TSX event modifiers for libpfm4 on Intel
>>>>> Haswell microarchitecture. But it doesn't seem to be working for me. The
>>>>> counts that I see for performance events are the same with or without the
>>>>> intx/intxcp attibute. Following is an example of command that I run:
>>>>>
>>>>> task -i -e UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES:intx ./tsx_example
>>>>>
>>>>> The count for UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES remains the same with and without
>>>>> intx attribute. The intxcp attribute also doesn't make a difference.
>>>>> Intel's PCM-TSX tool for the same code shows that cycles spent within
>>>>> transaction are only 56% of the total cycles.
>>>>>
>>>>> And what kernel version are you using?
>>>> You need kernel support to get Haswell support. In fact, you need
>>>> 3.11.0-rc5 or so.
>>>> With any older kernels, the tsx modifiers will be ignored.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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