HP Caliper User Guide Release 5.5 (5900-2351, August 2012)

• Percent Wrong Paths
Percentage of branch predictions that mispredicted the branch predicate.
• Percent Wrong Branch Targets
Percentage of branch predictions that mispredicted the branch target.
• Percent iprel branch
Percentage of IP-relative branches among all branches.
• Percent ind branch
Percentage of non-return indirect branches among all branches.
• Percent ret branch
Percentage of return branches among all branches.
• Percent iprel correct predictions
Percentage of IP-relative branches that predicted correctly.
• Percent iprel wrong paths
Percentage of IP-relative branches that mispredicted the branch predicate.
• Percent iprel wrong branch targets
Percentage of IP-relative branches that mispredicted the branch target.
• Percent ind correct predictions
Percentage of non-return indirect branches that predicted correctly.
• Percent ind wrong paths
Percentage of non-return indirect branches that mispredicted the branch predicate.
• Percent ind wrong branch targets
Percentage of non-return indirect branches that mispredicted the branch target.
• Percent ret correct predictions
Percentage of return branches that predicted correctly.
• Percent ret wrong paths
Percentage of return branches that mispredicted the branch predicate.
• Percent ret wrong branch targets
Percentage of return branches that mispredicted the branch target.
• % of cycles lost due to branch misprediction or exception/interruption flush
Percentage of cycles lost due to either an exception/interruption or a branch misprediction
flush.
Metrics for Integrity Servers Intel® Itanium® 9500 Processors Systems
• BR_PRED_DETAIL.IPREL_CORR_PRED
Number of IP-relative branch types with correctly predicted path and target.
• BR_PRED_DETAIL.IPREL_WRONG_PATH
Number of IP-relative branch types with mispredicted path.
• BR_PRED_DETAIL.IPREL_WRONG_TARGET
Number of IP-relative branch types with mispredicted target but, correctly predicted path.
• BR_PRED_DETAIL.NON_RETIND_WRONG_PATH
Number of non-return indirect branch types with mispredicted path.
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