Intel ARCHITECTURE IA-32 User Manual

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IA-32 Intel® Architecture Optimization

B-24

Trace Cache
Misses

The number of times
that significant
delays occurred in
order to decode
instructions and build
a trace because of a
TC miss.

BPU_fetch_request

TCMISS

TC to ROM
Transfers

Twice the number of
times that the ROM
microcode is
accessed to decode
complex IA-32
instructions instead
of building|delivering
traces. (Divide the
count by 2 to get the
number of
occurrence.)

tc_ms_xfer

CISC

Speculative
TC-Built Uops

The number of
speculative uops
originating when the
TC is in build mode.

uop_queue_writes

FROM_TC_BUILD

Speculative
TC-Delivered
Uops

The number of
speculative uops
originating when the
TC is in deliver
mode.

uop_queue_writes

FROM_TC_DELIVER

Speculative
Microcode
Uops

The number of
speculative uops
originating from the
microcode ROM (Not
all uops of an
instruction from the
microcode ROM will
be included).

uop_queue_writes

FROM_ROM

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Table B-1

Pentium 4 Processor Performance Metrics (continued)

Metric

Description

Event Name or Metric
Expression

Event Mask Value
Required

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