[PATCH v2 13/26] perf vendor events intel: Update jaketown metrics to TMA 5.2

From: Ian Rogers

Date: Thu Sep 24 2026 - 13:55:44 EST


The updated TMA metrics were published in:

https://github.com/intel/perfmon/commit/f9358e8da04bec945d8023e3f9b20a887ad46c45

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../arch/x86/jaketown/jkt-metrics.json | 41 ++++++++-----------
.../arch/x86/jaketown/metricgroups.json | 3 +-
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/jaketown/jkt-metrics.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/jaketown/jkt-metrics.json
index 250c73b21385..79000eb55dd8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/jaketown/jkt-metrics.json
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/jaketown/jkt-metrics.json
@@ -129,16 +129,6 @@
"PublicDescription": "This metric represents fraction of cycles where the Divider unit was active. Divide and square root instructions are performed by the Divider unit and can take considerably longer latency than integer or Floating Point addition; subtraction; or multiplication. Sample with: ARITH.DIVIDER_ACTIVE",
"ScaleUnit": "100%"
},
- {
- "BriefDescription": "This metric estimates how often the CPU was stalled on accesses to external memory (DRAM) by loads",
- "MetricConstraint": "NO_GROUP_EVENTS_SMT",
- "MetricExpr": "(1 - MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.LLC_HIT / (MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.LLC_HIT + 7 * MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.LLC_MISS)) * CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L2_PENDING / tma_info_thread_clks",
- "MetricGroup": "MemoryBound;TmaL3mem;TopdownL3;tma_L3_group;tma_memory_bound_group",
- "MetricName": "tma_dram_bound",
- "MetricThreshold": "tma_dram_bound > 0.1 & (tma_memory_bound > 0.2 & tma_backend_bound > 0.2)",
- "PublicDescription": "This metric estimates how often the CPU was stalled on accesses to external memory (DRAM) by loads. Better caching can improve the latency and increase performance. Sample with: MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.L3_MISS_PS",
- "ScaleUnit": "100%"
- },
{
"BriefDescription": "This metric represents fraction of cycles the CPU was stalled due to switches from DSB to MITE pipelines",
"MetricExpr": "DSB2MITE_SWITCHES.PENALTY_CYCLES / tma_info_thread_clks",
@@ -316,7 +306,7 @@
"MetricExpr": "64 * (UNC_M_CAS_COUNT.RD + UNC_M_CAS_COUNT.WR) / 1e9 / tma_info_system_time",
"MetricGroup": "HPC;MemOffcore;MemoryBW;SoC;tma_issueBW",
"MetricName": "tma_info_system_dram_bw_use",
- "PublicDescription": "Average external Memory Bandwidth Use for reads and writes [GB / sec]. Related metrics: tma_mem_bandwidth"
+ "PublicDescription": "Average external Memory Bandwidth Use for reads and writes [GB / sec]. Related metrics: tma_mem_bandwidth, tma_uc_bound"
},
{
"BriefDescription": "Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second",
@@ -392,12 +382,6 @@
"MetricGroup": "Power",
"MetricName": "tma_info_system_turbo_utilization"
},
- {
- "BriefDescription": "Measured Average Uncore Frequency for the SoC [GHz]",
- "MetricExpr": "tma_info_system_socket_clks / 1e9 / tma_info_system_time",
- "MetricGroup": "SoC",
- "MetricName": "tma_info_system_uncore_frequency"
- },
{
"BriefDescription": "Per-Logical Processor actual clocks when the Logical Processor is active.",
"MetricExpr": "CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD",
@@ -452,7 +436,16 @@
"MetricGroup": "CacheHits;MemoryBound;TmaL3mem;TopdownL3;tma_L3_group;tma_memory_bound_group",
"MetricName": "tma_l3_bound",
"MetricThreshold": "tma_l3_bound > 0.05 & (tma_memory_bound > 0.2 & tma_backend_bound > 0.2)",
- "PublicDescription": "This metric estimates how often the CPU was stalled due to loads accesses to L3 cache or contended with a sibling Core. Avoiding cache misses (i.e. L2 misses/L3 hits) can improve the latency and increase performance. Sample with: MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.L3_HIT_PS",
+ "PublicDescription": "This metric estimates how often the CPU was stalled due to loads accesses to L3 cache or contended with a sibling Core. Avoiding cache misses (i.e. L2 misses/L3 hits) can improve the latency and increase performance. Sample with: MEM_LOAD_RETIRED.L3_HIT_PS",
+ "ScaleUnit": "100%"
+ },
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "This metric estimates how often the CPU was stalled on accesses to external memory (DRAM) by loads",
+ "MetricExpr": "(1 - MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.LLC_HIT / (MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.LLC_HIT + 7 * MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.LLC_MISS)) * CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L2_PENDING / tma_info_thread_clks",
+ "MetricGroup": "MemoryBound;Offcore;TmaL3mem;TopdownL3;tma_L3_group;tma_memory_bound_group",
+ "MetricName": "tma_l3_miss_bound",
+ "MetricThreshold": "tma_l3_miss_bound > 0.1 & (tma_memory_bound > 0.2 & tma_backend_bound > 0.2)",
+ "PublicDescription": "This metric estimates how often the CPU was stalled on accesses to external memory (DRAM) by loads. Better caching can improve the latency and increase performance. Sample with: MEM_LOAD_RETIRED.L3_MISS",
"ScaleUnit": "100%"
},
{
@@ -488,18 +481,18 @@
{
"BriefDescription": "This metric estimates fraction of cycles where the core's performance was likely hurt due to approaching bandwidth limits of external memory - DRAM ([SPR-HBM] and/or HBM)",
"MetricExpr": "min(CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD, cpu@OFFCORE_REQUESTS_OUTSTANDING.ALL_DATA_RD\\,cmask\\=6@) / tma_info_thread_clks",
- "MetricGroup": "BvMB;MemoryBW;Offcore;TopdownL4;tma_L4_group;tma_dram_bound_group;tma_issueBW",
+ "MetricGroup": "BvMB;MemoryBW;Offcore;TopdownL4;tma_L4_group;tma_issueBW;tma_l3_miss_bound_group",
"MetricName": "tma_mem_bandwidth",
- "MetricThreshold": "tma_mem_bandwidth > 0.2 & (tma_dram_bound > 0.1 & (tma_memory_bound > 0.2 & tma_backend_bound > 0.2))",
- "PublicDescription": "This metric estimates fraction of cycles where the core's performance was likely hurt due to approaching bandwidth limits of external memory - DRAM ([SPR-HBM] and/or HBM). The underlying heuristic assumes that a similar off-core traffic is generated by all IA cores. This metric does not aggregate non-data-read requests by this logical processor; requests from other IA Logical Processors/Physical Cores/sockets; or other non-IA devices like GPU; hence the maximum external memory bandwidth limits may or may not be approached when this metric is flagged (see Uncore counters for that). Related metrics: tma_info_system_dram_bw_use",
+ "MetricThreshold": "tma_mem_bandwidth > 0.2 & (tma_l3_miss_bound > 0.1 & (tma_memory_bound > 0.2 & tma_backend_bound > 0.2))",
+ "PublicDescription": "This metric estimates fraction of cycles where the core's performance was likely hurt due to approaching bandwidth limits of external memory - DRAM ([SPR-HBM] and/or HBM). The underlying heuristic assumes that a similar off-core traffic is generated by all IA cores. This metric does not aggregate non-data-read requests by this logical processor; requests from other IA Logical Processors/Physical Cores/sockets; or other non-IA devices like GPU; hence the maximum external memory bandwidth limits may or may not be approached when this metric is flagged (see Uncore counters for that). Related metrics: tma_info_system_dram_bw_use, tma_uc_bound",
"ScaleUnit": "100%"
},
{
"BriefDescription": "This metric estimates fraction of cycles where the performance was likely hurt due to latency from external memory - DRAM ([SPR-HBM] and/or HBM)",
"MetricExpr": "min(CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD, OFFCORE_REQUESTS_OUTSTANDING.CYCLES_WITH_DATA_RD) / tma_info_thread_clks - tma_mem_bandwidth",
- "MetricGroup": "BvML;MemoryLat;Offcore;TopdownL4;tma_L4_group;tma_dram_bound_group;tma_issueLat",
+ "MetricGroup": "BvML;MemoryLat;Offcore;TopdownL4;tma_L4_group;tma_issueLat;tma_l3_miss_bound_group",
"MetricName": "tma_mem_latency",
- "MetricThreshold": "tma_mem_latency > 0.1 & (tma_dram_bound > 0.1 & (tma_memory_bound > 0.2 & tma_backend_bound > 0.2))",
+ "MetricThreshold": "tma_mem_latency > 0.1 & (tma_l3_miss_bound > 0.1 & (tma_memory_bound > 0.2 & tma_backend_bound > 0.2))",
"PublicDescription": "This metric estimates fraction of cycles where the performance was likely hurt due to latency from external memory - DRAM ([SPR-HBM] and/or HBM). This metric does not aggregate requests from other Logical Processors/Physical Cores/sockets (see Uncore counters for that). Related metrics: ",
"ScaleUnit": "100%"
},
@@ -529,7 +522,7 @@
"MetricGroup": "FetchLat;MicroSeq;TopdownL3;tma_L3_group;tma_fetch_latency_group;tma_issueMC;tma_issueMS;tma_issueMV;tma_issueSO",
"MetricName": "tma_ms_switches",
"MetricThreshold": "tma_ms_switches > 0.05 & (tma_fetch_latency > 0.1 & tma_frontend_bound > 0.15)",
- "PublicDescription": "This metric estimates the fraction of cycles when the CPU was stalled due to switches of uop delivery to the Microcode Sequencer (MS). Commonly used instructions are optimized for delivery by the DSB (decoded i-cache) or MITE (legacy instruction decode) pipelines. Certain operations cannot be handled natively by the execution pipeline; and must be performed by microcode (small programs injected into the execution stream). Switching to the MS too often can negatively impact performance. The MS is designated to deliver long uop flows required by CISC instructions like CPUID; or uncommon conditions like Floating Point Assists when dealing with Denormals. Sample with: IDQ.MS_SWITCHES. Related metrics: tma_clears_resteers, tma_l1_bound, tma_machine_clears, tma_microcode_sequencer, tma_mixing_vectors, tma_serializing_operation",
+ "PublicDescription": "This metric estimates the fraction of cycles when the CPU was stalled due to switches of uop delivery to the Microcode Sequencer (MS). Commonly used instructions are optimized for delivery by the DSB (decoded i-cache) or MITE (legacy instruction decode) pipelines. Certain operations cannot be handled natively by the execution pipeline; and must be performed by microcode (small programs injected into the execution stream). Switching to the MS too often can negatively impact performance. The MS is designated to deliver long uop flows required by CISC instructions like CPUID; or uncommon conditions like Floating Point Assists when dealing with Denormals. Sample with: IDQ.MS_SWITCHES. Related metrics: tma_clears_resteers, tma_info_inst_mix_vectormixpki, tma_l1_bound, tma_machine_clears, tma_microcode_sequencer, tma_mixing_vectors, tma_serializing_operation",
"ScaleUnit": "100%"
},
{
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/jaketown/metricgroups.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/jaketown/metricgroups.json
index eb8fbd14138a..e527c8c5c443 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/jaketown/metricgroups.json
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/jaketown/metricgroups.json
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@
"tma_branch_resteers_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_branch_resteers category",
"tma_core_bound_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_core_bound category",
"tma_divider_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_divider category",
- "tma_dram_bound_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_dram_bound category",
"tma_dtlb_load_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_dtlb_load category",
"tma_dtlb_store_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_dtlb_store category",
"tma_fetch_bandwidth_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_fetch_bandwidth category",
@@ -88,6 +87,7 @@
"tma_fp_vector_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_fp_vector category",
"tma_frontend_bound_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_frontend_bound category",
"tma_heavy_operations_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_heavy_operations category",
+ "tma_icache_misses_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_icache_misses category",
"tma_issue2P": "Metrics related by the issue $issue2P",
"tma_issueBM": "Metrics related by the issue $issueBM",
"tma_issueBW": "Metrics related by the issue $issueBW",
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@
"tma_issueTLB": "Metrics related by the issue $issueTLB",
"tma_itlb_misses_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_itlb_misses category",
"tma_l1_bound_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_l1_bound category",
+ "tma_l3_miss_bound_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_l3_miss_bound category",
"tma_light_operations_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_light_operations category",
"tma_machine_clears_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_machine_clears category",
"tma_mem_latency_group": "Metrics contributing to tma_mem_latency category",
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