Vince,

I think you need to use GLOBAL_POWER_EVNENTS:RUNNING to get the equivalent
of CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:08:00AM -0500, Kevin Corry wrote:
> Hi Vince,
> 
> On Thu May 10 2007 1:53 pm, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > I've been using perfmon2 to calculate CPI for various programs.  This is
> > fine on Pentium III, Itanium, and Core machines because both a CYCLES and
> > a RETIRED_INSTRUCTIONS performance counter is available.
> >
> > However, on Pentium 4 there is no CYCLES counter.  My question is, can I
> > use the "unique timestamp" field in the results to somehow get cycle
> > count?  From what I can tell this is based on the TSC, which I guess can
> > cause problems on SMP machines if the TSCs aren't synchronized.
> 
> If memory serves correctly, the "global-power-events" event on Pentium4 is 
> equivalent to clock-cycles (at least, when the processor is not stopped). 
> Give that one a try and see if the results look reasonable.
> 
> Thanks,
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