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Itanium: Is it possible to sample INST_RETIRED excluding nops?

defender1234
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‎01-16-2009 06:08 AM
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Hi all,

another question occurred to me:

I want to measure how much throughput of *real* instructions my program has (that is I don't want to count nop instructions). Then I could guess how good the compiler was able to fill the IA64 bundles, that is how much is done in parallel. (I know that stalls may distort the result, but I plan to figure that out later :)

So, does anybody know if there's a way to count retired instructions without nops on IA64 with VTune?


Thanks a lot in advance!
Andreas
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Shannon_C_Intel
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‎01-21-2009 01:34 PM
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Hello Andreas,
There is no counter to allow you to sample instructions excluding no ops. However, check to see if you have an event called NOPS_RETIRED. If your IA64 processors supports this, then you can sample both IA64_INST_RETIRED and NOPS_RETIRED and the difference is your "useful" instructions retired.
For more information, see the Intel Itanium 2 Processor Reference Manual here.
Thanks,
Shannon

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