Cavium ThunderX2 SoC Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU UNCORE) ============================================================= The ThunderX2 SoC PMU consists of independent, system-wide, per-socket PMUs such as the Level 3 Cache (L3C) and DDR4 Memory Controller (DMC). The DMC has 8 interleaved channels and the L3C has 16 interleaved tiles. Events are counted for the default channel (i.e. channel 0) and prorated to the total number of channels/tiles. The DMC and L3C support up to 4 counters. Counters are independently programmable and can be started and stopped individually. Each counter can be set to a different event. Counters are 32-bit and do not support an overflow interrupt; they are read every 2 seconds. PMU UNCORE (perf) driver: The thunderx2_pmu driver registers per-socket perf PMUs for the DMC and L3C devices. Each PMU can be used to count up to 4 events simultaneously. The PMUs provide a description of their available events and configuration options under sysfs, see /sys/devices/uncore_; S is the socket id. The driver does not support sampling, therefore "perf record" will not work. Per-task perf sessions are also not supported. Examples: # perf stat -a -e uncore_dmc_0/cnt_cycles/ sleep 1 # perf stat -a -e \ uncore_dmc_0/cnt_cycles/,\ uncore_dmc_0/data_transfers/,\ uncore_dmc_0/read_txns/,\ uncore_dmc_0/write_txns/ sleep 1 # perf stat -a -e \ uncore_l3c_0/read_request/,\ uncore_l3c_0/read_hit/,\ uncore_l3c_0/inv_request/,\ uncore_l3c_0/inv_hit/ sleep 1