[PATCH v9 38/48] perf jevents: Add Miss Level Parallelism (MLP) metric for Intel

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Tue Dec 02 2025 - 12:59:04 EST


Number of outstanding load misses per cycle.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
index 77b8e10194db..dddeae35e4b4 100755
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
@@ -624,6 +624,20 @@ def IntelL2() -> Optional[MetricGroup]:
], description="L2 data cache analysis")


+def IntelMlp() -> Optional[Metric]:
+ try:
+ l1d = Event("L1D_PEND_MISS.PENDING")
+ l1dc = Event("L1D_PEND_MISS.PENDING_CYCLES")
+ except:
+ return None
+
+ l1dc = Select(l1dc / 2, Literal("#smt_on"), l1dc)
+ ml = d_ratio(l1d, l1dc)
+ return Metric("lpm_mlp",
+ "Miss level parallelism - number of outstanding load misses per cycle (higher is better)",
+ ml, "load_miss_pending/cycle")
+
+
def IntelPorts() -> Optional[MetricGroup]:
pipeline_events = json.load(
open(f"{_args.events_path}/x86/{_args.model}/pipeline.json"))
@@ -836,6 +850,7 @@ def main() -> None:
IntelIlp(),
IntelL2(),
IntelLdSt(),
+ IntelMlp(),
IntelPorts(),
IntelSwpf(),
])
--
2.52.0.158.g65b55ccf14-goog