thunderx2-pmu.rst (1793B)
1============================================================= 2Cavium ThunderX2 SoC Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU UNCORE) 3============================================================= 4 5The ThunderX2 SoC PMU consists of independent, system-wide, per-socket 6PMUs such as the Level 3 Cache (L3C), DDR4 Memory Controller (DMC) and 7Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI2). 8 9The DMC has 8 interleaved channels and the L3C has 16 interleaved tiles. 10Events are counted for the default channel (i.e. channel 0) and prorated 11to the total number of channels/tiles. 12 13The DMC and L3C support up to 4 counters, while the CCPI2 supports up to 8 14counters. Counters are independently programmable to different events and 15can be started and stopped individually. None of the counters support an 16overflow interrupt. DMC and L3C counters are 32-bit and read every 2 seconds. 17The CCPI2 counters are 64-bit and assumed not to overflow in normal operation. 18 19PMU UNCORE (perf) driver: 20 21The thunderx2_pmu driver registers per-socket perf PMUs for the DMC and 22L3C devices. Each PMU can be used to count up to 4 (DMC/L3C) or up to 8 23(CCPI2) events simultaneously. The PMUs provide a description of their 24available events and configuration options under sysfs, see 25/sys/devices/uncore_<l3c_S/dmc_S/ccpi2_S/>; S is the socket id. 26 27The driver does not support sampling, therefore "perf record" will not 28work. Per-task perf sessions are also not supported. 29 30Examples:: 31 32 # perf stat -a -e uncore_dmc_0/cnt_cycles/ sleep 1 33 34 # perf stat -a -e \ 35 uncore_dmc_0/cnt_cycles/,\ 36 uncore_dmc_0/data_transfers/,\ 37 uncore_dmc_0/read_txns/,\ 38 uncore_dmc_0/write_txns/ sleep 1 39 40 # perf stat -a -e \ 41 uncore_l3c_0/read_request/,\ 42 uncore_l3c_0/read_hit/,\ 43 uncore_l3c_0/inv_request/,\ 44 uncore_l3c_0/inv_hit/ sleep 1