metric provides the average number of requests that are live in the OOQ per cycle. High numbers of OOQ entries indicates excessive snoop response timing.
snoop Event Set
Available only on Itanium 9300
If you use this event set, the default is to make the measurements irrespective of CPU operating state (that is, user, system, or interrupt states). By default, the idle state is not included in the measurement. You can use
•Limit measurement to a specific privilege level:
•Include idle:
•Exclude the interruption state:
•Only measure the interruption state:
Metrics Available from this Measurement
The following metrics are available from this event set. These descriptions do not take into account any
Metrics Available for Intel Itanium 2 and dual core Itanium 2 processor systems
The metrics are:
•Snoops Per Sec
Number of all snoops per second.
•Code
Percentage of snoops that are code snoops.
•Data
Percentage of snoops that are data snoops.
•Inv
Percentage snoops that are invalid snoops.
•128 Byte - Miss
This is the fraction of
•128 Byte - Hit
This is the fraction of
•128 Byte - Hitm
This is the fraction of
•128 Byte - Impwb
This is the fraction of
•64 Byte - Miss
This is the fraction of
258 Event Set Descriptions for CPU Metrics