Here’s a little reminder for myself and for anyone on the web who’s searching for information about AMD Athlon and/or Opteron performance counters.

AMD Performance counter resources:

• Doc #26094, Chapter 10 (very detailed!)
• Doc #22007, Appendix D (part of the Optimization Guide)
• Doc #24593, Chapter 13 (part of the AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual)
• Doc #41256, Section 3.14 (somewhat older, but still good)
• OProfile documentation (a list of CPU performance events)

Less techie posts to follow . . . honestly.