I played with various Intel performance counters by directly accessing the Model Specific Registers (MSRs) on a Xeon Skylake chip, and I found some readings about the cache-miss caused stalls like CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_MEM_ANY and CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L3_MISS hard to understand.

I played with various Intel performance counters by directly accessing the Model Specific Registers (MSRs) on a Xeon Skylake chip, and I found some readings about the cache-miss caused stalls like CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_MEM_ANY and CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L3_MISS hard to understand.

I played with various Intel performance counters by directly accessing the Model Specific Registers (MSRs) on a Xeon Skylake chip, and I found some readings about the cache-miss caused stalls like CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_MEM_ANY and CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L3_MISS hard to understand.

I played with various Intel performance counters by directly accessing the Model Specific Registers (MSRs) on a Xeon Skylake chip, and I found some readings about the cache-miss caused stalls like CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_MEM_ANY and CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L3_MISS hard to understand.

I played with various Intel performance counters by directly accessing the Model Specific Registers (MSRs) on a Xeon Skylake chip, and I found some readings about the cache-miss caused stalls like CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_MEM_ANY and CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L3_MISS hard to understand.