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Architecture specific notes for Intel® SandyBridge

Performance groups

Intel® SandyBridge Performance groups

Events

The input file for the events on Intel® SandyBridge can be found here.

Counters

Fixed-purpose counters

Since the Core2 microarchitecture, Intel® provides a set of fixed-purpose counters. Each can measure only one specific event. They are core-local, hence each hardware thread has its own set of fixed counters.

Counters

Counter name Event name
FIXC0 INSTR_RETIRED_ANY
FIXC1 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_CORE
FIXC2 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_REF
#### Available Options
Option Argument Description Comment
anythread N Set bit 2+(index*4) in config register
kernel N Set bit (index*4) in config register
### General-purpose counters The Intel® SandyBridge microarchitecture provides 4 general-purpose counters consisting of a config and a counter register. They are core-local, hence each hardware thread has its own set of general-purpose counters. #### Counters
Counter name Event name
PMC0 *
PMC1 *
PMC2 *
PMC3 *
#### Available Options
Option Argument Description Comment
edgedetect N Set bit 18 in config register
kernel N Set bit 17 in config register
anythread N Set bit 21 in config register
threshold 8 bit hex value Set bits 24-31 in config register
invert N Set bit 23 in config register
#### Special handling for events The Intel® SandyBridge microarchitecture provides measureing of offcore events in PMC counters. Therefore the stream of offcore events must be filtered using the OFFCORE_RESPONSE registers. The Intel® SandyBridge microarchitecture has two of those registers. LIKWID defines some events that perform the filtering according to the event name. Although there are many bitmasks possible, LIKWID natively provides only the ones with response type ANY. Own filtering can be applied with the OFFCORE_RESPONSE_0_OPTIONS and OFFCORE_RESPONSE_1_OPTIONS events. Only for those events two more counter options are available:
Option Argument Description Comment
match0 16 bit hex value Input value masked with 0x8FFF and written to bits 0-15 in the OFFCORE_RESPONSE register Check the Intel®®® Software Developer System Programming Manual, Vol. 3, Chapter Performance Monitoring and the event files at https://download.01.org/perfmon/SNB.
match1 22 bit hex value Input value is written to bits 16-37 in the OFFCORE_RESPONSE register Check the Intel®®® Software Developer System Programming Manual, Vol. 3, Chapter Performance Monitoring and the event files at https://download.01.org/perfmon/SNB.

Thermal counters

The Intel® SandyBridge microarchitecture provides one register for the current core temperature.

Counters

Counter name Event name
TMP0 TEMP_CORE

Power counters

The Intel® SandyBridge microarchitecture provides measurements of the current power consumption through the RAPL interface.

Counters

Counter name Event name
PWR0 PWR_PKG_ENERGY
PWR1 PWR_PP0_ENERGY
PWR2* PWR_PP1_ENERGY
PWR3 PWR_DRAM_ENERGY
*) The PWR2 counter is often not implemented by Intel® SandyBridge systems
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