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SubjectRe: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v4
Ingo Molnar writes:

> For example, a full kernel build's statistics on a 16-way x86 box are:
>
> $ timec -e -5,-4,-3,1,2,3,5 make -j32 bzImage
>
> Performance counter stats for 'make':
>
> 142420.882 task clock ticks (millisecs)
>
> 9951033 pagefaults (events)
> 302628 context switches (events)
> 57810 CPU migrations (events)
> 208439082509 instructions (events)
> 657918810 cache references (events)
> 120243697 cache misses (events)
> 3134162468 branch misses (events)

Does this machine have sufficient hardware counters to count those
four hardware events at the same time? Or were those counters
timeshared onto 1 or 2 hardware counters? If it's the latter, are
those counts from half or a quarter of the total execution?

Paul.


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