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IA-32 Intel® Architecture Optimization

B-30

All WCB
Evictions

The number of times
a WC buffer eviction
occurred due to any
causes (This can be
used to distinguish
64K aliasing cases
that contribute more
significantly to
performance penalty,
e.g., stores that are
64K aliased. A high
count of this metric
when there is no
significant
contribution due to
write combining
buffer full condition
may indicate such a
situation.)

WC_buffer

WCB_EVICTS

WCB Full
Evictions

The number of times
a WC buffer eviction
occurred when all of
the WC buffers are
already allocated.

WC_buffer

WCB_FULL_EVICT

continued

Table B-1

Pentium 4 Processor Performance Metrics (continued)

Metric

Description

Event Name or Metric
Expression

Event Mask Value
Required

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