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From: Patrick <plafratt@gmail.com>
Subject: L1-dcache-stores twice as big as expected
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Hello,

I have a simple piece of code that I am analyzing with perf:

int main( int argc, char*argv[] ) {
    if( argc < 2 ) {
        cout<<"Error: need size argument.\n";
        return 1;
    }
    uint64_t sz = strtoull( argv[1],NULL,10);
    uint8_t *a;
    a = new uint8_t[sz];

    for(int i=0;i<sz;i++ ) {
        a[i] = 1;
    }
    return 0;
}

When I run perf like this:

-> perf stat -e L1-dcache-stores:u ./copy 1048576

I get the following output:

-> Performance counter stats for './copy 1048576':
->         2,207,859 L1-dcache-stores
->       0.006255441 seconds time elapsed

I can't figure out why it is recording over 2 million stores to the L1 
data cache. I 
would expect it to be around 1 million. Has anyone seen this before?

Any help is appreciated.

Patrick