Hi
I want to monitor L2 cache misses through Linux perf, i.e. data that is not in the L2 cache and requires a main memory access, but I'm a bit confused which PMU events to use.
The Cortex-A72 TRM lists the following which seem likely candidates:
Which is a L2 cache miss?
What I'm trying to do is measure the effect of the L2 cache size on the performance of a CPU with 0.5MB L2 cache vs that of CPU with 1.0MB L2 cache.
Kind regards
IMHO: REFILL: Loading cacheline because of any event, for example clearing itREFILL_LD: Loading it, because of a "load instruction"REFILL_ST: same, but storeINVAL: Is invalidation of a cache line.So, I'd say, the sum of the REFILL* events gives the number of cache misses.
Thank you!