SHORT TLB miss rate/ratio EVENTSET PMC0 RETIRED_INSTRUCTIONS PMC1 DATA_CACHE_ACCESSES PMC2 L2_DTLB_HIT_ALL PMC3 DTLB_MISS_ALL METRICS Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time L1 DTLB request rate PMC1/PMC0 L1 DTLB miss rate (PMC2+PMC3)/PMC0 L1 DTLB miss ratio (PMC2+PMC3)/PMC1 L2 DTLB request rate (PMC2+PMC3)/PMC0 L2 DTLB miss rate PMC3/PMC0 L2 DTLB miss ratio PMC3/(PMC2+PMC3) LONG Formulas: L1 DTLB request rate = DATA_CACHE_ACCESSES / RETIRED_INSTRUCTIONS L1 DTLB miss rate = (L2_DTLB_HIT_ALL+DTLB_MISS_ALL)/RETIRED_INSTRUCTIONS L1 DTLB miss ratio = (L2_DTLB_HIT_ALL+DTLB_MISS_ALL)/DATA_CACHE_ACCESSES L2 DTLB request rate = (L2_DTLB_HIT_ALL+DTLB_MISS_ALL)/RETIRED_INSTRUCTIONS L2 DTLB miss rate = DTLB_MISS_ALL / RETIRED_INSTRUCTIONS L2 DTLB miss ratio = DTLB_MISS_ALL / (L2_DTLB_HIT_ALL+DTLB_MISS_ALL) - L1 DTLB request rate tells you how data intensive your code is or how many data accesses you have on average per instruction. The DTLB miss rate gives a measure how often a TLB miss occurred per instruction. And finally L1 DTLB miss ratio tells you how many of your memory references required caused a TLB miss on average. NOTE: The L2 metrics are only relevant if L2 DTLB request rate is equal to the L1 DTLB miss rate!