Re: [Gems-users] Very high cache miss overhead

[Mark Samuelson <msamuelson@xxxxxxxx>]

They are almost all supervisor misses.  What does that mean?

Carole-Jean Wu wrote:
> Are the cache misses you saw supervisor or user misses? 
>
> Carole
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Byn Choi <bynchoi1@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:bynchoi1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     What if you didn't run anything, i.e. maybe there is some background
>     process?
>
>     Byn
>
>
>     On Apr 15, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Mark Samuelson wrote:
>
>         We are using the MESI_CMP_filter_directory and are getting over
>         900000 cache misses in both L1 and L2 even when are test program
>         does nothing but sleep.  Is this level of overhead normal?
>
>         Mark
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