Why doesn’t perf report cache misses?
On my system, an Intel Xeon X5570 @ 2.93 GHz I was able to get perf stat to report cache references and misses by requesting those events explicitly like this perf stat -B -e cache-references,cache-misses,cycles,instructions,branches,faults,migrations sleep 5 Performance counter stats for ‘sleep 5’: 10573 cache-references 1949 cache-misses # 18.434 % of all cache refs 1077328 … Read more