"Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@aria.ncl.cs.columbia.edu> writes: > So is there no way that i can account for tlb misses. For my > purpose i need to catch the tlb misses. Is there no way in x86 to > catch the tlb misses. Is there a documentation about the tlbs > anywhere. I searched thru intel documentation, but dint get any > useful info. Is there an intel forum where you could ask? I was surprised to learn about the TSC only recently. It seems like such a useful hardware feature that I would have known about it long ago. Could be there's some hardware counter that you could make use of. I don't know. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/