Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] ThunderX2: Add Cavium ThunderX2 SoC UNCORE PMU driver

[Pranith Kumar]

Hi Ganapatrao,


On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni
<ganapatrao.kulkarni@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +
> +enum thunderx2_uncore_l3_events {
> +       L3_EVENT_NONE,
> +       L3_EVENT_NBU_CANCEL,
> +       L3_EVENT_DIB_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_DOB_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_DIB_CREDIT_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_DOB_CREDIT_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_FORCE_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_IDX_CONFLICT_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_EVICT_CONFLICT_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_BANK_CONFLICT_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_FILL_ENTRY_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_EVICT_NOT_READY_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_L3_RETRY,
> +       L3_EVENT_READ_REQ,
> +       L3_EVENT_WRITE_BACK_REQ,
> +       L3_EVENT_INVALIDATE_NWRITE_REQ,
> +       L3_EVENT_INV_REQ,
> +       L3_EVENT_SELF_REQ,
> +       L3_EVENT_REQ,
> +       L3_EVENT_EVICT_REQ,
> +       L3_EVENT_INVALIDATE_NWRITE_HIT,
> +       L3_EVENT_INVALIDATE_HIT,
> +       L3_EVENT_SELF_HIT,
> +       L3_EVENT_READ_HIT,
> +       L3_EVENT_MAX,
> +};
> +
> +enum thunderx2_uncore_dmc_events {
> +       DMC_EVENT_NONE,
> +       DMC_EVENT_COUNT_CYCLES,
> +       DMC_EVENT_RES2,
> +       DMC_EVENT_RES3,
> +       DMC_EVENT_RES4,
> +       DMC_EVENT_RES5,
> +       DMC_EVENT_RES6,
> +       DMC_EVENT_RES7,
> +       DMC_EVENT_RES8,
> +       DMC_EVENT_READ_64B_TXNS,
> +       DMC_EVENT_READ_BELOW_64B_TXNS,
> +       DMC_EVENT_WRITE_TXNS,
> +       DMC_EVENT_TXN_CYCLES,
> +       DMC_EVENT_DATA_TRANSFERS,
> +       DMC_EVENT_CANCELLED_READ_TXNS,
> +       DMC_EVENT_CONSUMED_READ_TXNS,
> +       DMC_EVENT_MAX,
> +};

Can you please provide a link to where these counters are documented?
It is not clear what each counter does especially for the L3C events.

Also, what counter do you need to use to get L3 hit/miss ratio? I
think this is the most useful counter related to L3.

Thanks,
--
Pranith