[PATCH] perf jevents: Add IOMMU metrics for AMD and Intel

From: Chun-Tse Shao

Date: Wed May 27 2026 - 18:39:48 EST


Add IOMMU Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) and interrupt cache metrics
to perf jevents for both AMD and Intel platforms. This enhances I/O
performance observability, allowing fleet-wide monitoring of IOMMU
overhead.

For AMD, these metrics are supported on Zen 2 and newer processors and
are implemented using the standard `amd_iommu` PMU events. The
implementation uses the existing `_zen_model` helper to ensure these are
only generated for Zen 2+.

For Intel, these metrics are supported on platforms that expose the
required uncore IIO IOMMU events (such as Emerald Rapids and Granite
Rapids). The Intel implementation dynamically detects event availability
at generation time. It requires at least the TLB events to expose the
metric group, while the interrupt cache events are optional. This allows
platforms like Emerald Rapids, which lack IOMMU interrupt cache events,
to still expose the IOMMU TLB metrics.

The following metrics are added:
- iotlb_total_hit: Total IOTLB hits (4K, 2M, 1G pages).
- iotlb_total_miss: Total IOTLB misses.
- iotlb_miss_rate: IOTLB miss rate.
- iotlb_interrupt_cache_hit: Interrupt cache hits.
- iotlb_interrupt_cache_miss: Interrupt cache misses (calculated for
Intel as lookup - hit, clamped to zero).
- iotlb_interrupt_cache_lookup: Interrupt cache lookups.
- iotlb_interrupt_cache_miss_rate: Interrupt cache miss rate.

Tested:
# perf stat -M iotlb_total_hit,iotlb_total_miss,iotlb_miss_rate --per-socket --metric-only -a -j -- sleep 10
{"socket" : "S0", "counters" : 10, "hits iotlb_total_hit" : "3579249.0", "% iotlb_miss_rate" : "0.0", "misses iotlb_total_miss" : "3.0"}
{"socket" : "S1", "counters" : 10, "hits iotlb_total_hit" : "0.0", "% iotlb_miss_rate" : "0.0", "misses iotlb_total_miss" : "0.0"}

Signed-off-by: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview
---
tools/perf/pmu-events/amd_metrics.py | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 118 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/amd_metrics.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/amd_metrics.py
index 971f6e7af1f8..4558e7ce20f2 100755
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/amd_metrics.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/amd_metrics.py
@@ -265,6 +265,61 @@ def AmdDtlb() -> Optional[MetricGroup]:
], description="Data TLB metrics")


+def AmdIotlb() -> Optional[MetricGroup]:
+ global _zen_model
+ if _zen_model < 2:
+ return None
+
+ total_hit = Event("amd_iommu/mem_iommu_tlb_pte_hit/") + Event(
+ "amd_iommu/mem_iommu_tlb_pde_hit/"
+ )
+ total_miss = Event("amd_iommu/mem_iommu_tlb_pte_mis/") + Event(
+ "amd_iommu/mem_iommu_tlb_pde_mis/"
+ )
+ miss_rate = d_ratio(total_miss, total_miss + total_hit)
+
+ interrupt_cache_hit = Event("amd_iommu/int_dte_hit/")
+ interrupt_cache_miss = Event("amd_iommu/int_dte_mis/")
+ interrupt_cache_lookup = interrupt_cache_hit + interrupt_cache_miss
+ interrupt_cache_miss_rate = d_ratio(
+ interrupt_cache_miss, interrupt_cache_miss + interrupt_cache_hit
+ )
+
+ return MetricGroup(
+ "iotlb",
+ [
+ Metric("iotlb_total_hit", "IOTLB total hit", total_hit, "hits"),
+ Metric("iotlb_total_miss", "IOTLB total miss", total_miss, "misses"),
+ Metric("iotlb_miss_rate", "IOTLB miss rate", miss_rate, "100%"),
+ Metric(
+ "iotlb_interrupt_cache_hit",
+ "IOTLB interrupt cache hit",
+ interrupt_cache_hit,
+ "hits",
+ ),
+ Metric(
+ "iotlb_interrupt_cache_miss",
+ "IOTLB interrupt cache miss",
+ interrupt_cache_miss,
+ "misses",
+ ),
+ Metric(
+ "iotlb_interrupt_cache_lookup",
+ "IOTLB interrupt cache lookup",
+ interrupt_cache_lookup,
+ "lookups",
+ ),
+ Metric(
+ "iotlb_interrupt_cache_miss_rate",
+ "IOTLB interrupt cache miss rate",
+ interrupt_cache_miss_rate,
+ "100%",
+ ),
+ ],
+ description="IOMMU TLB metrics",
+ )
+
+
def AmdItlb():
global _zen_model
l2h = Event("bp_l1_tlb_miss_l2_tlb_hit", "bp_l1_tlb_miss_l2_hit")
@@ -473,6 +528,7 @@ def main() -> None:
AmdBr(),
AmdCtxSw(),
AmdDtlb(),
+ AmdIotlb(),
AmdItlb(),
AmdLdSt(),
AmdUpc(),
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
index 52035433b505..c3a5c2965f74 100755
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
@@ -457,6 +457,67 @@ def IntelIlp() -> MetricGroup:
])


+def IntelIotlb() -> Optional[MetricGroup]:
+ try:
+ total_hit = (
+ Event("UNC_IIO_IOMMU0.4K_HITS")
+ + Event("UNC_IIO_IOMMU0.2M_HITS")
+ + Event("UNC_IIO_IOMMU0.1G_HITS")
+ )
+ total_miss = Event("UNC_IIO_IOMMU0.MISSES")
+ except:
+ return None
+
+ miss_rate = d_ratio(total_miss, total_miss + total_hit)
+ metrics = [
+ Metric("iotlb_total_hit", "IOTLB total hit", total_hit, "hits"),
+ Metric("iotlb_total_miss", "IOTLB total miss", total_miss, "misses"),
+ Metric("iotlb_miss_rate", "IOTLB miss rate", miss_rate, "100%"),
+ ]
+
+ try:
+ interrupt_cache_hit = Event("UNC_IIO_IOMMU3.INT_CACHE_HITS")
+ interrupt_cache_lookup = Event("UNC_IIO_IOMMU3.INT_CACHE_LOOKUPS")
+ interrupt_cache_miss = max(interrupt_cache_lookup - interrupt_cache_hit, 0)
+ interrupt_cache_miss_rate = d_ratio(
+ interrupt_cache_miss, interrupt_cache_miss + interrupt_cache_hit
+ )
+ metrics += [
+ Metric(
+ "iotlb_interrupt_cache_hit",
+ "IOTLB interrupt cache hit",
+ interrupt_cache_hit,
+ "hits",
+ ),
+ Metric(
+ "iotlb_interrupt_cache_miss",
+ "IOTLB interrupt cache miss",
+ interrupt_cache_miss,
+ "misses",
+ ),
+ Metric(
+ "iotlb_interrupt_cache_lookup",
+ "IOTLB interrupt cache lookup",
+ interrupt_cache_lookup,
+ "lookups",
+ ),
+ Metric(
+ "iotlb_interrupt_cache_miss_rate",
+ "IOTLB interrupt cache miss rate",
+ interrupt_cache_miss_rate,
+ "100%",
+ ),
+ ]
+ except:
+ pass
+
+ return MetricGroup(
+ "iotlb",
+ metrics,
+ description="IOMMU TLB metrics",
+ )
+
+
def IntelL2() -> Optional[MetricGroup]:
try:
DC_HIT = Event("L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_HIT")
@@ -1105,6 +1166,7 @@ def main() -> None:
IntelCtxSw(),
IntelFpu(),
IntelIlp(),
+ IntelIotlb(),
IntelL2(),
IntelLdSt(),
IntelMissLat(),
--
2.54.0.823.g6e5bcc1fc9-goog