The pmlist command

The following is an example of the pmlist command on a POWER5 processor-based system.

# pmlist -s

POWER5 supports 6 counters

Number of groups            : 144
Number of sets              : 8

Threshold multiplier (lower): 1
Threshold multiplier (upper): 32
Threshold multiplier (hyper): 64
Hypervisor counting mode is supported
Runlatch counting mode is supported
The following is another example of the pmlist command:
# pmlist -D -1  -p POWER5
Derived metrics supported:
        PMD_UTI_RATE                   Utilization rate
        PMD_MIPS                       MIPS
        PMD_INST_PER_CYC               Instructions per cycle
        PMD_HW_FP_PER_CYC              HW floating point instructions per Cycle
        PMD_HW_FP_PER_UTIME            HW floating point instructions / user time
        PMD_HW_FP_RATE                 HW floating point rate
        PMD_FX                         Total Fixed point operations
        PMD_FX_PER_CYC                 Fixed point operations per Cycle
        PMD_FP_LD_ST                   Floating point load and store operations
        PMD_INST_PER_FP_LD_ST          Instructions per floating point load/store
        PMD_PRC_INST_DISP_CMPL         % Instructions dispatched that completed
        PMD_DATA_L2                    Total L2 data cache accesses
        PMD_PRC_L2_ACCESS              % accesses from L2 per cycle
        PMD_L2_TRAF                    L2 traffic
        PMD_L2_BDW                     L2 bandwidth per processor
        PMD_L2_LD_EST_LAT_AVG          Estimated latency from loads from L2 (Average)
        PMD_UTI_RATE_RC                Utilization rate (versus run cycles)
        PMD_INST_PER_CYC_RC            Instructions per run cycle
        PMD_LD_ST                      Total load and store operations
        PMD_INST_PER_LD_ST             Instructions per load/store
        PMD_LD_PER_LD_MISS             Number of loads per load miss
        PMD_LD_PER_DTLB                Number of loads per DTLB miss
        PMD_ST_PER_ST_MISS             Number of stores per store miss
        PMD_LD_PER_TLB                 Number of loads per TLB miss
        PMD_LD_ST_PER_TLB              Number of load/store per TLB miss
        PMD_TLB_EST_LAT                Estimated latency from TLB miss
        PMD_MEM_LD_TRAF                Memory load traffic
        PMD_MEM_BDW                    Memory bandwidth per processor
        PMD_MEM_LD_EST_LAT             Estimated latency from loads from memory
        PMD_LD_LMEM_PER_LD_RMEM        Number of loads from local memory per loads from remote memory
        PMD_PRC_MEM_LD_RC              % loads from memory per run cycle