From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:01:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160916130119.GE16797@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160825033514.GA31573@nazgul.tnic>
On Thu, 25 Aug, at 05:35:14AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> (dropping stable@ from CC)
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:27:06PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > They're not meant to be comparable between machines. I wouldn't even
> > compare the LLC numbers between two different Intel parts.
> >
> > These events are meant to profile a workload on the machine you run them
> > on. Big cache-miss/ref ratios indicate you loose performance because of
> > the memory subsystem and or data structure layout.
>
> Ah ok, then I've misunderstood Matt's justification in the commit message.
>
> FWIW: Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Ping? Tip folks: are you OK to apply this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-16 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-24 13:12 [PATCH v2] perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2 Matt Fleming
2016-08-24 14:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-24 18:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-08-25 3:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-16 13:01 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2016-09-16 16:09 ` [tip:perf/urgent] " tip-bot for Matt Fleming
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