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Vol. 3B 19-161

PERFORMANCE-MONITORING EVENTS

67H

See 

Table 

18-2 

and 

Table 

18-3.

BUS_TRANS_WB

Explicit writeback bus 

transactions.

This event counts all explicit writeback bus transactions due to 

dirty line evictions. It does not count implicit writebacks due to 

invalidation by a snoop request.

68H

See 

Table 

18-2 

and 

Table 

18-3.

BUS_TRANS_IFETCH

Instruction-fetch bus 

transactions.

This event counts all instruction fetch full cache line bus 

transactions.

69H

See 

Table 

18-2 

and 

Table 

18-3.

BUS_TRANS_INVAL

Invalidate bus 

transactions.

This event counts all invalidate transactions. Invalidate 

transactions are generated when:
- A store operation hits a shared line in the L2 cache.
- A full cache line write misses the L2 cache or hits a shared line 

in the L2 cache.

6AH

See 

Table 

18-2 

and 

Table 

18-3.

BUS_TRANS_PWR

Partial write bus 

transaction.

This event counts partial write bus transactions.

6BH

See 

Table 

18-2 

and 

Table 

18-3.

BUS_TRANS_P

Partial bus 

transactions.

This event counts all (read and write) partial bus transactions.

6CH

See 

Table 

18-2 

and 

Table 

18-3.

BUS_TRANS_IO

IO bus transactions.

This event counts the number of completed I/O bus 

transactions as a result of IN and OUT instructions. The count 

does not include memory mapped IO.

6DH

See 

Table 

18-2 

and 

Table 

18-3.

BUS_TRANS_DEF

Deferred bus 

transactions.

This event counts the number of deferred transactions. 

6EH

See 

Table 

18-2 

and 

Table 

18-3.

BUS_TRANS_BURST

Burst (full cache-line) 

bus transactions.

This event counts burst (full cache line) transactions including:
- Burst reads.
- RFOs.
- Explicit writebacks.
- Write combine lines.

Table 19-26.  Non-Architectural Performance Events for 45 nm, 32 nm Intel® Atomâ„¢ Processors (Contd.)

Event

Num.

Umask

Value

Event Name

Definition

Description and Comment