perf jevents: Add L2 metrics for Intel

Give a breakdown of various L2 counters as metrics, including totals,
reads, hardware prefetcher, RFO, code and evictions.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>
Cc: Edward Baker <edward.baker@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Ian Rogers 2026-01-27 10:44:52 -08:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent cd1c6a4874
commit 7413633e25

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@ -263,6 +263,175 @@ def IntelBr():
description="breakdown of retired branch instructions")
def IntelL2() -> Optional[MetricGroup]:
try:
DC_HIT = Event("L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_HIT")
except:
return None
try:
DC_MISS = Event("L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_MISS")
l2_dmnd_miss = DC_MISS
l2_dmnd_rd_all = DC_MISS + DC_HIT
except:
DC_ALL = Event("L2_RQSTS.ALL_DEMAND_DATA_RD")
l2_dmnd_miss = DC_ALL - DC_HIT
l2_dmnd_rd_all = DC_ALL
l2_dmnd_mrate = d_ratio(l2_dmnd_miss, interval_sec)
l2_dmnd_rrate = d_ratio(l2_dmnd_rd_all, interval_sec)
DC_PFH = None
DC_PFM = None
l2_pf_all = None
l2_pf_mrate = None
l2_pf_rrate = None
try:
DC_PFH = Event("L2_RQSTS.PF_HIT")
DC_PFM = Event("L2_RQSTS.PF_MISS")
l2_pf_all = DC_PFH + DC_PFM
l2_pf_mrate = d_ratio(DC_PFM, interval_sec)
l2_pf_rrate = d_ratio(l2_pf_all, interval_sec)
except:
pass
DC_RFOH = None
DC_RFOM = None
l2_rfo_all = None
l2_rfo_mrate = None
l2_rfo_rrate = None
try:
DC_RFOH = Event("L2_RQSTS.RFO_HIT")
DC_RFOM = Event("L2_RQSTS.RFO_MISS")
l2_rfo_all = DC_RFOH + DC_RFOM
l2_rfo_mrate = d_ratio(DC_RFOM, interval_sec)
l2_rfo_rrate = d_ratio(l2_rfo_all, interval_sec)
except:
pass
DC_CH = None
try:
DC_CH = Event("L2_RQSTS.CODE_RD_HIT")
except:
pass
DC_CM = Event("L2_RQSTS.CODE_RD_MISS")
DC_IN = Event("L2_LINES_IN.ALL")
DC_OUT_NS = None
DC_OUT_S = None
l2_lines_out = None
l2_out_rate = None
wbn = None
isd = None
try:
DC_OUT_NS = Event("L2_LINES_OUT.NON_SILENT",
"L2_LINES_OUT.DEMAND_DIRTY",
"L2_LINES_IN.S")
DC_OUT_S = Event("L2_LINES_OUT.SILENT",
"L2_LINES_OUT.DEMAND_CLEAN",
"L2_LINES_IN.I")
if DC_OUT_S.name == "L2_LINES_OUT.SILENT" and (
args.model.startswith("skylake") or
args.model == "cascadelakex"):
DC_OUT_S.name = "L2_LINES_OUT.SILENT/any/"
# bring is back to per-CPU
l2_s = Select(DC_OUT_S / 2, Literal("#smt_on"), DC_OUT_S)
l2_ns = DC_OUT_NS
l2_lines_out = l2_s + l2_ns
l2_out_rate = d_ratio(l2_lines_out, interval_sec)
nlr = max(l2_ns - DC_WB_U - DC_WB_D, 0)
wbn = d_ratio(nlr, interval_sec)
isd = d_ratio(l2_s, interval_sec)
except:
pass
DC_OUT_U = None
l2_pf_useless = None
l2_useless_rate = None
try:
DC_OUT_U = Event("L2_LINES_OUT.USELESS_HWPF")
l2_pf_useless = DC_OUT_U
l2_useless_rate = d_ratio(l2_pf_useless, interval_sec)
except:
pass
DC_WB_U = None
DC_WB_D = None
wbu = None
wbd = None
try:
DC_WB_U = Event("IDI_MISC.WB_UPGRADE")
DC_WB_D = Event("IDI_MISC.WB_DOWNGRADE")
wbu = d_ratio(DC_WB_U, interval_sec)
wbd = d_ratio(DC_WB_D, interval_sec)
except:
pass
l2_lines_in = DC_IN
l2_code_all = (DC_CH + DC_CM) if DC_CH else None
l2_code_rate = d_ratio(l2_code_all, interval_sec) if DC_CH else None
l2_code_miss_rate = d_ratio(DC_CM, interval_sec)
l2_in_rate = d_ratio(l2_lines_in, interval_sec)
return MetricGroup("lpm_l2", [
MetricGroup("lpm_l2_totals", [
Metric("lpm_l2_totals_in", "L2 cache total in per second",
l2_in_rate, "In/s"),
Metric("lpm_l2_totals_out", "L2 cache total out per second",
l2_out_rate, "Out/s") if l2_out_rate else None,
]),
MetricGroup("lpm_l2_rd", [
Metric("lpm_l2_rd_hits", "L2 cache data read hits",
d_ratio(DC_HIT, l2_dmnd_rd_all), "100%"),
Metric("lpm_l2_rd_hits", "L2 cache data read hits",
d_ratio(l2_dmnd_miss, l2_dmnd_rd_all), "100%"),
Metric("lpm_l2_rd_requests", "L2 cache data read requests per second",
l2_dmnd_rrate, "requests/s"),
Metric("lpm_l2_rd_misses", "L2 cache data read misses per second",
l2_dmnd_mrate, "misses/s"),
]),
MetricGroup("lpm_l2_hwpf", [
Metric("lpm_l2_hwpf_hits", "L2 cache hardware prefetcher hits",
d_ratio(DC_PFH, l2_pf_all), "100%"),
Metric("lpm_l2_hwpf_misses", "L2 cache hardware prefetcher misses",
d_ratio(DC_PFM, l2_pf_all), "100%"),
Metric("lpm_l2_hwpf_useless", "L2 cache hardware prefetcher useless prefetches per second",
l2_useless_rate, "100%") if l2_useless_rate else None,
Metric("lpm_l2_hwpf_requests", "L2 cache hardware prefetcher requests per second",
l2_pf_rrate, "100%"),
Metric("lpm_l2_hwpf_misses", "L2 cache hardware prefetcher misses per second",
l2_pf_mrate, "100%"),
]) if DC_PFH else None,
MetricGroup("lpm_l2_rfo", [
Metric("lpm_l2_rfo_hits", "L2 cache request for ownership (RFO) hits",
d_ratio(DC_RFOH, l2_rfo_all), "100%"),
Metric("lpm_l2_rfo_misses", "L2 cache request for ownership (RFO) misses",
d_ratio(DC_RFOM, l2_rfo_all), "100%"),
Metric("lpm_l2_rfo_requests", "L2 cache request for ownership (RFO) requests per second",
l2_rfo_rrate, "requests/s"),
Metric("lpm_l2_rfo_misses", "L2 cache request for ownership (RFO) misses per second",
l2_rfo_mrate, "misses/s"),
]) if DC_RFOH else None,
MetricGroup("lpm_l2_code", [
Metric("lpm_l2_code_hits", "L2 cache code hits",
d_ratio(DC_CH, l2_code_all), "100%") if DC_CH else None,
Metric("lpm_l2_code_misses", "L2 cache code misses",
d_ratio(DC_CM, l2_code_all), "100%") if DC_CH else None,
Metric("lpm_l2_code_requests", "L2 cache code requests per second",
l2_code_rate, "requests/s") if DC_CH else None,
Metric("lpm_l2_code_misses", "L2 cache code misses per second",
l2_code_miss_rate, "misses/s"),
]),
MetricGroup("lpm_l2_evict", [
MetricGroup("lpm_l2_evict_mef_lines", [
Metric("lpm_l2_evict_mef_lines_l3_hot_lru", "L2 evictions M/E/F lines L3 hot LRU per second",
wbu, "HotLRU/s") if wbu else None,
Metric("lpm_l2_evict_mef_lines_l3_norm_lru", "L2 evictions M/E/F lines L3 normal LRU per second",
wbn, "NormLRU/s") if wbn else None,
Metric("lpm_l2_evict_mef_lines_dropped", "L2 evictions M/E/F lines dropped per second",
wbd, "dropped/s") if wbd else None,
Metric("lpm_l2_evict_is_lines_dropped", "L2 evictions I/S lines dropped per second",
isd, "dropped/s") if isd else None,
]),
]),
], description="L2 data cache analysis")
def IntelPorts() -> Optional[MetricGroup]:
pipeline_events = json.load(
open(f"{_args.events_path}/x86/{_args.model}/pipeline.json"))
@ -386,6 +555,7 @@ def main() -> None:
Smi(),
Tsx(),
IntelBr(),
IntelL2(),
IntelPorts(),
IntelSwpf(),
])