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Hi guys,
I'm having some trouble understanding the meaning of the $MaliCoreL2ReadsFragmentExternalReadBeats counter (in the context of a Mali G-76 at least). I have 3 external memory reading counters with the following values :
$MaliCoreL2ReadsFragmentExternalReadBeats
$MaliCoreL2ReadsFragmentExternalReadBeats * 16
$MaliCoreL2ReadsLoadStoreExternalReadBeats * 16
$MaliCoreL2ReadsTextureExternalReadBeats * 16
I can't find any reference to it in your documentation (alongside the other 2). The main reason I'm asking is that an optimization we've made reduced the remaining 2 (as we expected) but just slightly increased the first one - MaliCoreL2ReadsFragmentExternalReadBeats. The increase might just be noise (as it's insignificant) but it would be good to understand what kind of data it refers to.
MaliCoreL2ReadsFragmentExternalReadBeats
Cheers!
Thanks Pete! No problem with that, and thanks for the clarification. That makes sense as my comparison is across a long period of time as well.