Digital audio workstation with eight workloads, most running on about half the cores.

Topdown shows a fairly high retirement rate and a moderate backend stalls.

AMD metrics show floating point code with some L2 access and ~3% L2 miss rate.

elapsed              1726.242
on_cpu               0.382          # 6.11 / 16 cores
utime                10500.850
stime                47.074
nvcsw                3642706        # 99.52%
nivcsw               17684          # 0.48%
inblock              32             # 0.02/sec
onblock              5563264        # 3222.76/sec
cpu-clock            10537365674121 # 10537.366 seconds
task-clock           10539488539243 # 10539.489 seconds
page faults          5202419        # 493.612/sec
context switches     3668784        # 348.099/sec
cpu migrations       9860           # 0.936/sec
major page faults    2              # 0.000/sec
minor page faults    5202417        # 493.612/sec
alignment faults     0              # 0.000/sec
emulation faults     0              # 0.000/sec
branches             22526966187182 # 164.443 branches per 1000 inst
branch misses        69804883809    # 0.31% branch miss
conditional          17490143949675 # 127.675 conditional branches per 1000 inst
indirect             899288850816   # 6.565 indirect branches per 1000 inst
cpu-cycles           43357380985760 # 1.57 GHz
instructions         137035285194525 # 3.16 IPC
slots                86778583206174 #
retiring             48737834062562 # 56.2% (56.3%)
-- ucode             181979075018   #     0.2%
-- fastpath          48555854987544 #    56.0%
frontend             4334322106455  #  5.0% ( 5.0%)
-- latency           2225062424058  #     2.6%
-- bandwidth         2109259682397  #     2.4%
backend              29024707472740 # 33.4% (33.5%)
-- cpu               22313697880973 #    25.7%
-- memory            6711009591767  #     7.7%
speculation          4525815072268  #  5.2% ( 5.2%)
-- branch mispredict 3885614045719  #     4.5%
-- pipeline restart  640201026549   #     0.7%
smt-contention       155878677039   #  0.2% ( 0.0%)
cpu-cycles           43396568368829 # 1.57 GHz
instructions         137013352800870 # 3.16 IPC
instructions         45670507186534 # 34.828 l2 access per 1000 inst
l2 hit from l1       1213761106561  # 3.11% l2 miss
l2 miss from l1      9601821941     #
l2 hit from l2 pf    336908195519   #
l3 hit from l2 pf    25188072888    #
l3 miss from l2 pf   14736784937    #
instructions         45650874552746 # 300.547 float per 1000 inst
float 512            60             # 0.000 AVX-512 per 1000 inst
float 256            724            # 0.000 AVX-256 per 1000 inst
float 128            13720228389310 # 300.547 AVX-128 per 1000 inst
float MMX            0              # 0.000 MMX per 1000 inst
float scalar         0              # 0.000 scalar per 1000 inst

Intel metrics

elapsed              2218.388
on_cpu               0.509          # 8.14 / 16 cores
utime                17904.234
stime                153.060
nvcsw                6312153        # 99.11%
nivcsw               56716          # 0.89%
inblock              13696          # 6.17/sec
onblock              5981656        # 2696.40/sec
cpu-clock            17923867991160 # 17923.868 seconds
task-clock           17934828268326 # 17934.828 seconds
page faults          5635139        # 314.201/sec
context switches     6379725        # 355.717/sec
cpu migrations       58350          # 3.253/sec
major page faults    32             # 0.002/sec
minor page faults    5635107        # 314.199/sec
alignment faults     0              # 0.000/sec
emulation faults     0              # 0.000/sec
branches             25692757041603 # 169.359 branches per 1000 inst
branch misses        111662245731   # 0.43% branch miss
conditional          25692757066435 # 169.359 conditional branches per 1000 inst
indirect             6963633990831  # 45.902 indirect branches per 1000 inst
slots                111051632095220 #
retiring             66782619366711 # 60.1% (60.1%)
-- ucode             6090089635057  #     5.5%
-- fastpath          60692529731654 #    54.7%
frontend             7417885388931  #  6.7% ( 6.7%)
-- latency           4029049572418  #     3.6%
-- bandwidth         3388835816513  #     3.1%
backend              27455858955895 # 24.7% (24.7%)
-- cpu               19222508412549 #    17.3%
-- memory            8233350543346  #     7.4%
speculation          8540816498829  #  7.7% ( 7.7%)
-- branch mispredict 8074182331949  #     7.3%
-- pipeline restart  466634166880   #     0.4%
smt-contention       0              #  0.0% ( 0.0%)
cpu-cycles           48755331505674 # 1.54 GHz
instructions         170816333856671 # 3.50 IPC
l2 access            520881946161   # 7.769 l2 access per 1000 inst
l2 miss              139366208502   # 26.76% l2 miss

Process overview shows stargate-engine is primary computation process

600 processes
	216 stargate-engine      94533.21   319.23
	 68 clinfo                  17.67     5.24
	 38 vulkaninfo               1.14     1.14
	  4 vulkani:disk$0           0.12     0.12
	  6 glxinfo:gdrv0            0.12     0.09
	  6 php                      0.11     0.31
	  6 clang                    0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-0               0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-1               0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-10              0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-11              0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-12              0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-13              0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-14              0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-15              0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-2               0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-3               0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-4               0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-5               0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-6               0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-7               0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-8               0.06     0.06
	  2 llvmpipe-9               0.06     0.06
	  2 glxinfo                  0.06     0.03
	  2 glxinfo:cs0              0.06     0.03
	  2 glxinfo:disk$0           0.06     0.03
	  2 glxinfo:sh0              0.06     0.03
	  2 glxinfo:shlo0            0.06     0.03
	  3 rocminfo                 0.03     0.00
	  1 lspci                    0.01     0.02
	  1 ps                       0.00     0.01
	 98 sh                       0.00     0.00
	 24 stargate                 0.00     0.00
	 13 gcc                      0.00     0.00
	 10 gsettings                0.00     0.00
	  8 stat                     0.00     0.00
	  8 systemd-detect-          0.00     0.00
	  6 llvm-link                0.00     0.00
	  5 phoronix-test-s          0.00     0.00
	  4 gmain                    0.00     0.00
	  2 cc                       0.00     0.00
	  2 dconf worker             0.00     0.00
	  2 lscpu                    0.00     0.00
	  2 uname                    0.00     0.00
	  2 which                    0.00     0.00
	  2 xset                     0.00     0.00
	  1 date                     0.00     0.00
	  1 dirname                  0.00     0.00
	  1 dmesg                    0.00     0.00
	  1 dmidecode                0.00     0.00
	  1 grep                     0.00     0.00
	  1 ifconfig                 0.00     0.00
	  1 ip                       0.00     0.00
	  1 lsmod                    0.00     0.00
	  1 mktemp                   0.00     0.00
	  1 python                   0.00     0.00
	  1 python3                  0.00     0.00
	  1 qdbus                    0.00     0.00
	  1 readlink                 0.00     0.00
	  1 realpath                 0.00     0.00
	  1 sed                      0.00     0.00
	  1 sort                     0.00     0.00
	  1 stty                     0.00     0.00
	  1 systemctl                0.00     0.00
	  1 template.sh              0.00     0.00
	  1 wc                       0.00     0.00
	  1 xrandr                   0.00     0.00
0 processes running
47 maximum processes

Process structure shows a regular pattern.

      276263) stargate         cpu=14 start=5.81  finish=54.84
        276264) stargate-engine  cpu=7 start=5.82  finish=54.80
          276265) stargate-engine  cpu=9 start=7.21  finish=54.80
          276266) stargate-engine  cpu=13 start=7.21  finish=54.50
          276267) stargate-engine  cpu=12 start=7.21  finish=54.50
          276268) stargate-engine  cpu=2 start=7.21  finish=54.50
          276269) stargate-engine  cpu=11 start=7.21  finish=54.50
          276270) stargate-engine  cpu=14 start=7.21  finish=54.50
          276271) stargate-engine  cpu=0 start=7.21  finish=54.50
          276272) stargate-engine  cpu=1 start=7.21  finish=54.50