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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> w=
rote:
>
> What kind of stalls are you looking to measure?
>
> The core2 supports many kind of stall events. =A0Check out Intel Vol3=
b
> documentation, or the libpfm4 showevtinfo utility for a list of them =
all.
>
> perf only directly supports a small subset of "generalized" events, a=
nd
> only then if a kernel developer bothers to hook up the proper events =
in
> the kernel sources.
>
> If you do find a likely event you want to use, you can make perf use =
it as
> a "raw" event.

Vince, resource stalls is close to what I was looking for.

libpfim4 and raw events set me on the right direction, thanks!

Yipeng