On 08/26/2016 10:30 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 08/25/2016 04:49 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
>> ...
>>      [PERF_COUNT_ARC_EDTLB] = "edtlb",       /* D-TLB Miss */
>>      [PERF_COUNT_ARC_EITLB] = "eitlb",       /* I-TLB Miss */
>> +
>> +    [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES] = "imemrdc",   /* Instr: mem read 
>> cached */
>> +    [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES] = "dclm",          /* D-cache Load Miss */
> 
> I think this is duplicating a mistake we already have. I vaguely remember when
> doing some hackbench profiling last year with range based profiling confined 
> to
> memset routine and saw that L1-dcache-misses was counting zero. This is 
> because it
> only counts LD misses while memset only does ST.

So given that this is the best we got, I'm going to merge this anyways.

-Vineet

> 
> Performance counter stats for '/sbin/hackbench':
> 
>      0 L1-dcache-misses
>      0 L1-dcache-load-misses
>      1846082 L1-dcache-store-misses
> 
> 
> @PeterZ do you concur that is wrong and we ought to setup 2 counters to do 
> this
> correctly ?
> 
> -Vineet
> 


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