SHORT L3 cache miss rate/ratio EVENTSET FIXC0 INSTR_RETIRED_ANY FIXC1 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_CORE FIXC2 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_REF PMC0 MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED_L3_ALL PMC1 MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED_L3_MISS PMC2 UOPS_RETIRED_ALL METRICS Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time Runtime unhalted [s] FIXC1*inverseClock Clock [MHz] 1.E-06*(FIXC1/FIXC2)/inverseClock CPI FIXC1/FIXC0 L3 request rate (PMC0)/PMC2 L3 miss rate PMC1/PMC2 L3 miss ratio PMC1/PMC0 LONG Formulas: L3 request rate = MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED_L3_ALL/UOPS_RETIRED_ALL L3 miss rate = MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED_L3_MISS/UOPS_RETIRED_ALL L3 miss ratio = MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED_L3_MISS/MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED_L3_ALL - This group measures the locality of your data accesses with regard to the L3 cache. L3 request rate tells you how data intensive your code is or how many data accesses you have on average per instruction. The L3 miss rate gives a measure how often it was necessary to get cache lines from memory. And finally L3 miss ratio tells you how many of your memory references required a cache line to be loaded from a higher level. While the# data cache miss rate might be given by your algorithm you should try to get data cache miss ratio as low as possible by increasing your cache reuse.