SHORT L2 cache bandwidth in MBytes/s EVENTSET FIXC0 INSTR_RETIRED_ANY FIXC1 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_CORE FIXC2 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_REF PMC0 L2_REQUESTS_REFERENCE PMC1:MATCH0=0x0002:MATCH1=0x1 OFFCORE_RESPONSE_0_OPTIONS METRICS Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time Runtime unhalted [s] FIXC1*inverseClock Clock [MHz] 1.E-06*(FIXC1/FIXC2)/inverseClock CPI FIXC1/FIXC0 L2 non-RFO bandwidth [MBytes/s] 1.E-06*(PMC0)*64.0/time L2 non-RFO data volume [GByte] 1.E-09*PMC0*64.0 L2 RFO bandwidth [MBytes/s] 1.E-06*(PMC1)*64.0/time L2 RFO data volume [GByte] 1.E-09*(PMC1)*64.0 L2 bandwidth [MBytes/s] 1.E-06*(PMC0+PMC1)*64.0/time L2 data volume [GByte] 1.E-09*(PMC0+PMC1)*64.0 LONG Formulas: L2 non-RFO bandwidth [MBytes/s] = 1.E-06*L2_REQUESTS_REFERENCE*64.0/time L2 non-RFO data volume [GByte] = 1.E-09*L2_REQUESTS_REFERENCE*64.0 L2 RFO bandwidth [MBytes/s] = 1.E-06*(OFFCORE_RESPONSE_0_OPTIONS:MATCH0=0x0002:MATCH1=0x1)*64.0/time L2 RFO data volume [GByte] = 1.E-09*(OFFCORE_RESPONSE_0_OPTIONS:MATCH0=0x0002:MATCH1=0x1)*64.0 L2 bandwidth [MBytes/s] = 1.E-06*(L2_REQUESTS_REFERENCE+OFFCORE_RESPONSE_0_OPTIONS:MATCH0=0x0002:MATCH1=0x1)*64.0/time L2 data volume [GByte] = 1.E-09*(L2_REQUESTS_REFERENCE+OFFCORE_RESPONSE_0_OPTIONS:MATCH0=0x0002:MATCH1=0x1)*64.0 -- The L2 bandwidth and data volume does not contain RFOs (also called write-allocates). The RFO bandwidth and data volume is only accurate when all used data fits in the L2 cache. As soon as the data exceeds the L2 cache size, the RFO metrics are too high. Moreover, with increasing count of measured cores, the non-RFO metrics overcount but commonly stay withing 10% error.