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On 04/26/2010 06:40 AM, Giant Sand Fan's wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to calculate de CPU load by access the performance counters
> in mips and I haved reading in the cp0 but my problem is that I cannot
> find documentation about the real meaning of these counters :
>
> 1.-LOG_PERF_CNT_NISSUE : ¿means cycle with no issue?
>
> 2.-LOG_PERF_CNT_SISSUE : ¿means cycle with     issue?

Single issue.

>
> 3.-LOG_PERF_CNT_DISSUE: ¿means cycle with double issue?
>

That's right.  And PERF_CNT_CLK is the number of cycles.

David Daney