The PMCs of EC2: Measuring IPCWhat's so special about these seven architectural PMCs? They give you a good overview of key CPU behavior, sure. But Intel have also chosen them as a golden set, to be highlighted first in the PMC manual and their presence exposed via the CPUID instruction. Note that the Intel mnemonic for LLC here is "longest latency cache", but this is also known as "last level cache" or "level 3 cache" (assumin
