Re: [PATCH 08/19] perf c2c: Shared data analyser

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 01:07:00PM -0500, Joe Mario wrote:
> If you only sample on the HITMs then you don't get the store misses.
> That means you'll not be able to detect who is simultaneously tugging
> on the same cache lines.  That gives up much of the value of "perf
> c2c".

As long as you know which lines are hurting bringing in (loads) you can
often figure out who is doing the stores on them.

> As we developed this, we ended up settling on Ivy Bridge to get the
> behavior we wanted.

Wouldn't SNB also work?
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