Available performance monitors for the Intel® Core2 microarchitecture
Counters available for each hardware thread
Fixed-purpose counters
The Intel Core2 microarchitecture is the first architecture offering a set of fixed-purpose counters. Each counter can measure only one specific event.
Counter and events
Counter name | Event name |
FIXC0 | INSTR_RETIRED_ANY |
FIXC1 | CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_CORE |
FIXC2 | CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_REF |
Available Options
Option | Argument | Description | Comment |
kernel | N | Set bit (index*4) in config register | |
General-purpose counters
The Intel® Core2 microarchitecture provides 2 general-purpose counters consisting of a config and a counter register.
Counter and events
Counter name | Event name |
PMC0 | * |
PMC1 | * |
Available Options
Option | Argument | Description | Comment |
edgedetect | N | Set bit 18 in config register | |
kernel | N | Set bit 17 in config register | |
threshold | 8 bit hex value | Set bits 24-31 in config register | |
invert | N | Set bit 23 in config register | |
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