AEPWatch is a tool that monitors and reports on the behavior of the AEP DIMM. It consists of two parts: AEPWatch, which collects data from the DIMM, and generate_plot.sh, which creates visualizations of the collected data. AEPWatch samples counters from the DIMM at a specified interval and number of samples. generate_plot.sh takes the output file and generates charts to analyze metrics like bytes read/written, hit ratios, and write merge efficiency. These metrics provide insight into the performance and efficiency of the DIMM's prefetcher, writes merges, and media operations.
AEPWatch is a tool that monitors and reports on the behavior of the AEP DIMM. It consists of two parts: AEPWatch, which collects data from the DIMM, and generate_plot.sh, which creates visualizations of the collected data. AEPWatch samples counters from the DIMM at a specified interval and number of samples. generate_plot.sh takes the output file and generates charts to analyze metrics like bytes read/written, hit ratios, and write merge efficiency. These metrics provide insight into the performance and efficiency of the DIMM's prefetcher, writes merges, and media operations.
AEPWatch is a tool that monitors and reports on the behavior of the AEP DIMM. It consists of two parts: AEPWatch, which collects data from the DIMM, and generate_plot.sh, which creates visualizations of the collected data. AEPWatch samples counters from the DIMM at a specified interval and number of samples. generate_plot.sh takes the output file and generates charts to analyze metrics like bytes read/written, hit ratios, and write merge efficiency. These metrics provide insight into the performance and efficiency of the DIMM's prefetcher, writes merges, and media operations.
AEPWatch is a tool that monitors and reports on the behavior of the AEP DIMM. It consists of two parts: AEPWatch, which collects data from the DIMM, and generate_plot.sh, which creates visualizations of the collected data. AEPWatch samples counters from the DIMM at a specified interval and number of samples. generate_plot.sh takes the output file and generates charts to analyze metrics like bytes read/written, hit ratios, and write merge efficiency. These metrics provide insight into the performance and efficiency of the DIMM's prefetcher, writes merges, and media operations.
Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Tool Usage..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Explanation of metrics .................................................................................................................................. 4 Introduction AEPWatch is a tool that monitors and reports the behavior of the AEP DIMM. It consists of 2 tools; the data collector is called AEPWatch and a second visualization tool named generate_plot.sh uses gnuplot to visualize the collected data.
Tool Usage AEPWatch "<sampling interval>" "<number of samples>" -f outputfile.csv
Example: "AEPWatch 1 100" reads the counters every 1 second 100 times.
generate_plot.sh outputfile.csv: See below for an example of the charts generated.
Explanation of metrics bytes_read (derived) : bytes_written (derived):
Number of bytes transacted by the read and write operations.
Note: The total number of bytes transacted in any sample is computed as bytes_read (derived) + 2 * bytes_written (derived).
wdb_merge_percentage (derived): Measures efficiency of the write merges. Range of 0.0-1.0.
0.75 : indicates 100% sequential write traffic
> 0.75 : indicates writing to 64B addresses that are still in the WDB (never had to go to media) 1 or ~1: likely writing to a specific address or small range of addresses (fitting in WDB) for long periods of time. Current implementation will force the WDB entries to be flushed to media after 3ms in the WDB. Once the WDB is scheduled to go to media it is invalidated from the WDB.
Formula: CONSTANT = 10us (clock rate * number of clocks for DDP) sxp_write_ops_adj = sxp_write_ops - (sample_time / CONSTANT) wdb_merge_percentage: (ddrt_write_ops - sxp_write_ops_adj) / ddrt_write_ops sxp_read_ops (derived) : sxp_write_ops (derived):
Number of operations performed by the microcontroller to the physical media.
Number of read and write operations generated by the microcontroller. Each operation transacts a 64byte operation. These operations includes commands transacted on behalf of the microcontroller for maintenance as well as the commands transacted by the CPU.
ddrt_read_ops : ddrt_write_ops:
Number of read and write operations received from the CPU (memory controller), for the 2LM and App Direct Mode partitions.
