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Reading CBo RxR_OCCUPANCY event

Bernard — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:15:50 GMT

Hi!

I'm trying to write simple kernel mode driver which will access programatically Uncore performance counters of the Xeon-e5-2600 processor.My code is based on this document :"Xeon-e5-2600 uncore-guide".So far I was able to access with the help of inline assembly instructions wrmsr and rdmsr Cn_MSR_PMON_CTLn registers and try to set variuos bitfields.

One of the planned driver's routine will be responsible for measuring Average depth of Ingress Queue exactly as it is written in the Xeon e5 Uncore guide.By setting the lower bitfields of

Cn_MSR_PMON_CTLn the RxR_OCCUPANCY event and its IRQ subevent will be counted.Uncore performance guide does not explain exactly which of the 4 belonging to specific CBo Cn_MSR_PMON_CTRn registers will be affected by this setting.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Can anybody help me.

Bernard — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:47:02 GMT

Can anybody help me.

Hello Illya,

Patrick_F_Intel1 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:01:15 GMT

Hello Illya, Can you explain a little more what you mean by: "Uncore guide.By setting the lower bitfields of Cn_MSR_PMON_CTLn the RxR_OCCUPANCY event and its IRQ subevent will be counted. Uncore performance guide does not explain exactly which of the 4 belonging to specific CBo Cn_MSR_PMON_CTRn registers will be affected by this setting." Pat

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Bernard — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:38:08 GMT

<<>> Hi Pat Sorry for overusing those abbrevations:) I was not able to find which of the PMON counters will receive the result of RxR_OCCUPANCY event. I'm using this guide "Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 Product Family Uncore Performance Guide" , please look at page nr.42 which describes so called "RxR_OCCUPANCY" event. Thanks in advance.

Probably I have found a

Bernard — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:44:00 GMT

Probably I have found a solution to my problem.RxR_OCCUPANCY event is restricted to register 0.