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Counting MFENCE events with performance counters

Tim_M_1
Beginner
‎10-31-2014 06:53 AM
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Hi All,

I'm wondering if there is a performance counter for retired MFENCE instructions or perhaps another counter that could provide something similar. I've googled a bit, and it looks like AMD has such a counter but I've seen nothing for Intel. Ditto on lock prefix instructions...I haven't seen anything for those either.

Thanks for the help!

Tim

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Roman_D_Intel
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‎10-31-2014 08:11 AM
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On Intel you have MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.LOCK_LOADS/MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.LOCK_STORES  events. However they work best with disabled Hyper-Threading.

Roman

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Tim_M_1
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‎10-31-2014 09:26 AM
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Thanks Roman, what about for memory fences?

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Roman_D_Intel
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‎11-26-2014 05:12 AM
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I am not aware of FENCE events.

Roman

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