Re: The sixty second pmc howto

ag> Let's say it takes 1000 cycles to issue a memory load
ag> because of a cache miss, and 1 cycle to increment
ag> something already in a register. Let's also say that
ag> your program does each operation the same number of times.

ag> Does the 'instructions' count each operation identically so
ag> both operations appear to cost the same, or is it sampled
ag> from some clock interrupt, so that the memory load
ag> (correctly) shows up 1000 times more often?

'instructions' is a convenience alias for closest
underlying PMC event that counts retired instructions.
Take a look at pmc(3), section "Event Name Aliases".

I could add an alias 'unhalted-cycles' that maps to:

AMD K8 -- "k8-bu-cpu-clk-unhalted"
INTEL P6 -- "p6-cpu-clk-unhalted"
INTEL PIV -- "p4-global-power-events" perhaps. I need to
check the manual again.
(The AMD K7 lacks a suitable event).

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