Re: Perf JSON events mismatch with Intel SDM

2018-07-16 Thread Andi Kleen
>The semantic difference being, as far as I can tell, that the "GT" >counters do not sample randomly, but will rather offer a precise count of >loads meeting the stated condition.  It's all the same underlying hardware event. The only difference is what threshold is used for filterin

Re: Perf JSON events mismatch with Intel SDM

2018-07-15 Thread Andi Kleen
> now need to dive in deep into the actual implementation. Simple question: is > this a bug? These are derived events from MEM_TRANS_RETIRED.LOAD_LATENCY, which is in the SDM. It's not a bug. In general the event lists used by perf are newer versions than what is in the SDM. -Andi