Re: [PATCH v2] perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2

[Borislav Petkov]

(dropping stable@ from CC)

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:27:06PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> They're not meant to be comparable between machines. I wouldn't even
> compare the LLC numbers between two different Intel parts.
> 
> These events are meant to profile a workload on the machine you run them
> on. Big cache-miss/ref ratios indicate you loose performance because of
> the memory subsystem and or data structure layout.

Ah ok, then I've misunderstood Matt's justification in the commit message.

FWIW: Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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