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- Auto page closes.
- Open-page to closed-page policy transitions. As well as length of time spent in each policy.
- Starvation event in scheduler, starvation state and back-pressure to B-Box.
- Thermal throttling
and many more.
2.7.6
M-Box Events Ordered By Code
summarizes the directly-measured M-Box events.
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Table 2-84. Performance Monitor Events for M-Box Events
Symbol Name
CNT_CTLx
[13:9]
SubCtl
Dep
Max
Inc/Cyc
Description
Events selected by inc_sel
DSP_FILL
0x00
DSP
1
Dispatch Queue Events
CYCLES_MFULL
0x01
1
M-Box Full Cycles
RETRY_MFULL
0x02
1
Retry MFull
RETRY_STARVE
0x03
1
Retry Starve
THERM_TRP_UP
0x04
THR
1
DIMM ‘Up’ Thermal Trip Points Crossed
THERM_TRP_DN
0x05
THR
1
DIMM ‘’Dn’ Thermal Trip Points Crossed
REFRESH
0x06
1
Refresh Commands
REFRESH_CONFLICT
0x07
1
Refresh Conflict
SCHED_MODE_CHANGES
0x08
1
Scheduling Mode Changes
ISS_EV
0x09
ISS
1
ISS Related Events
DRAM_CMD
0x0a
PLD,ISS
1
DRAM Commands
PLD_RETRY_EV
0x0b
PLD
1
PLD Related Retry Events
MA_PAR_ERR
0x0c
1
MA Parity Error
FVC_EV0
0x0d
FVC
1
FVC Event 0
FVC_EV1
0x0e
FVC
1
FVC Event 1
FVC_EV2
0x0f
FVC
1
FVC Event 2
FVC_EV3
0x10
FVC
1
FVC Event 3
PATROL_TXNS
0x11
1
Patrol Scrub Transaction
TRANS_CMDS
0x12
1
Translated Commands
PAGE_MISS
0x13
1
Page Table Misses
PAGE_HITS
0x14
1
Page Table Hits
PAGE_EMPTY
0x15
1
Page Table Autoclose Commands
PGT_PAGE_EV
0x16
PGT
1
PGT Related Page Table Events
MULTICAS
0x17
1
Multi-CAS
FVID_RACE
0x18
1
FVID Race Detected
TT_CMD_CONFLICT
0x19
1
Thermal Throttling Command Conflicts
BBOX_CMDS_ALL
0x1a
1
All B-Box Commands
CYCLES
0x1b
1
M-Box Cycles
SCHED_INFLIGHT_CMDS
0x1c
1
All B-Box Commands
INFLIGHT_CMDS
0x1d
1
In-flight Commands