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

% L2 instruction cache miss Percentage of MLI cache misses.
L1 instruction cache misses per 1000
instructions retired
Number of FLI cache misses per 1000 instructions retired.
L1 instruction prefetch misses per
1000 instructions retired
Number of FLI prefetch misses per 1000 instructions retired.
L1 instruction demand misses per
1000 instructions retired
Number of FLI demand misses per 1000 instructions retired.
L2 instruction cache misses per 1000
instructions retired
Number of MLI cache misses per 1000 instructions retired.
L2 instruction prefetch misses per
1000 instructions retired
Number of MLI prefetch misses per 1000 instructions retired.
L2 instruction demand misses per
1000 instructions retired
Number of MLI demand misses per 1000 instructions retired.
icache Measurement Report Metrics
Table 27 (page 216) shows the information found in icache reports.
In this table, “program object” refers to any of the following:
• Thread
• Load module
• Function
• Statement
• Cache line
• Instruction
Table 27 Information in icache Measurement Reports
DescriptionColumn
Percent of the total for <metric> attributable to a given program object. The <metric> is the same
as the <metric> HP Caliper uses for sorting, except when the sort metric is avg-latency or
address, in which case sampled misses is used.
% Total <metric>
A running sum of the percent of total for <metric> accounted for by the given program object
and those listed above it.
Cumulat % of Total
Total number of sampled instruction cache misses attributed to the given program object.Sampled Icache
Misses
Number of cycles expended on instruction cache misses summed across samples for the given
program object.
Icache Latency
Cycles
Average number of cycles expended on instruction cache misses across samples for the given
program object.
Avg. Icache Laten.
Cycles
Kernel Thread ID suffixed with the the name of the routine that the thread will execute once it is
created.
Kernel Thread
Identification
Number
Shared library or the main executable.Load Module
Routine from your application.Function
Source file associated with a function.File
216 Descriptions of Measurement Reports