SHORT TLB Misses EVENTSET PMC0 LONG_DATA_PAGE_WALK PMC1 DATA_PAGE_WALK METRICS Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time L1 TLB misses [misses/s] PMC1/time L2 TLB misses [misses/s] PMC0/time L1 TLB misses per L2 TLB miss PMC1/PMC0 LONG Formulas: L1 TLB misses [misses/s] = DATA_PAGE_WALK/time L2 TLB misses [misses/s] = LONG_DATA_PAGE_WALK/time L1 TLB misses per L2 TLB miss = DATA_PAGE_WALK/LONG_DATA_PAGE_WALK - Analysis of the layered TLB of the Intel Xeon Phi. According to the book 'Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High-Performance Programming' by James Jeffers and James Reinders, a high L1 TLB misses per L2 TLB miss ratio suggests that your working set fits into the L2 TLB but not in L1 TLB. Using large pages may be beneficial.