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The Unabridged Pentium 4 IA32 Processor Genealogy
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The Unabridged Pentium 4 IA32 Processor Genealogy

by Tom Shanley, Bob Colwell
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1744 pages
35h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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The Performance Monitoring Facility

Performance Monitoring Is Not Architecturally Defined

Whether or not a processor implements a Performance Monitoring facility and, if so, the method of implementation is design-specific. The facility is not part of the IA32 processor architecture spec. The manner in which it has been implemented on the Pentium®, P6 and Pentium® 4 processor families are not compatible with each other.

Author's Note

The author had a considerable amount of trouble achieving a detailed understanding of every aspect of this feature. The Intel® documentation of this feature is somewhat confusing in some areas.

An Overview

The Pentium® and P6 processor families implemented two Performance Counters, permitting the simultaneously measurement ...

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