SHORT Data cache miss rate/ratio EVENTSET FIXC0 INSTR_RETIRED_ANY FIXC1 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_CORE FIXC2 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_REF PMC0 L1D_REPL PMC1 L1D_ALL_REF_ANY METRICS Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time Runtime unhalted [s] FIXC1*inverseClock Clock [MHz] 1.E-06*(FIXC1/FIXC2)/inverseClock CPI FIXC1/FIXC0 data cache misses PMC0 data cache request rate PMC1/FIXC0 data cache miss rate PMC0/FIXC0 data cache miss ratio PMC0/PMC1 LONG Formulas: data cache misses = L1D_REPL data cache request rate = L1D_ALL_REF_ANY / INSTR_RETIRED_ANY data cache miss rate = L1D_REPL / INSTR_RETIRED_ANY data cache miss ratio = L1D_REPL / L1D_ALL_REF_ANY - This group measures the locality of your data accesses with regard to the L1 cache. Data cache request rate tells you how data intensive your code is or how many data accesses you have on average per instruction. The data cache miss rate gives a measure how often it was necessary to get cache lines from higher levels of the memory hierarchy. And finally data cache 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.