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Architecture specific notes for IBM® POWER8

Performance groups

IBM® POWER8 Performance groups

Events

The input file for the events on IBM® POWER8 can be found here.

Counters

Core-local counters

General-purpose counters

The IBM® POWER9 microarchitecture provides 4+2 general-purpose counters consisting of a config and a counter register. Additionally, there are two registers marked as general-purpose but they are fixed to specific events (like the fixed-purpose counters of Intel® systems). Be aware that IBM names the counters PMC1-PMC6 while LIKWID uses PMC0-PMC5.

Counters
Counter name Event name
PMC0 *
PMC1 *
PMC2 *
PMC3 *
PMC4 PM_RUN_INST_CMPL
PMC5 PM_RUN_CYC

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