[perf-discuss] trapstat -T on T2 chips

2008-02-15 Thread Nicolas Michael
Hi, I'm currently doing some benchmarking on a Maramba T5240. With cpustat, I have seen that TLB misses are quite an issue. Now I want to know whether these misses mainly occur in 8k or 4m pages. However, trapstat -T is not working properly: It only reports some tsb misses, but the columns for

Re: [perf-discuss] trapstat -T on T2 chips

2008-02-15 Thread Steve Sistare
Nicolas Michael wrote: > trapstat -T is not working properly: It only reports some tsb misses, > but the columns for tlb misses are all 0 (instruction and data). This is the expected result. The T2 processor handles TLB misses in hardware, by accessing the TSB directly. If the mapping is not fo

Re: [perf-discuss] trapstat -T on T2 chips

2008-02-15 Thread Nicolas Michael
Steve Sistare wrote: > Nicolas Michael wrote: > > trapstat -T is not working properly: It only reports some tsb misses, > > but the columns for tlb misses are all 0 (instruction and data). > > This is the expected result. The T2 processor handles TLB misses in > hardware, by accessing the TSB di

Re: [perf-discuss] trapstat -T on T2 chips

2008-02-15 Thread Steve Sistare
Nicolas Michael wrote: > Steve Sistare wrote: >> Nicolas Michael wrote: >>> trapstat -T is not working properly: It only reports some tsb misses, >>> but the columns for tlb misses are all 0 (instruction and data). >> This is the expected result. The T2 processor handles TLB misses in >> hardware