Re: measuring L3cache misses

[Vince Weaver <vweaver1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Can Hankendi wrote:

> I'm not aware of that coding, can you explain more? However if check Basic
> Performance Measurements for AMD Athlon ... - AMD Developer, f74e1 seems to
> be the correct register. What do you think?

how exactly are you calling perf?  What command line are you using?

I'd reccommend you use libpfm4 to create your perf_event raw event values, 
otherwise you are just measuring arbitrary values.  There's no error 
checking in the perf raw event case.

Vince