(dropping stable@ from CC)
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:27:06PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> They're not meant to be comparable between machines. I wouldn't even
> compare the LLC numbers between two different Intel parts.
>
> These events are meant to profile a workload on the machine you run them
> on. Big cache-miss/ref ratios indicate you loose performance because of
> the memory subsystem and or data structure layout.
Ah ok, then I've misunderstood Matt's justification in the commit message.
FWIW: Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
Thanks.
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