SMI Rate - What Do You See?

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19 Jun 2014 00:10 #48078 by fmyhr
Intel CPUs since at least Nehalem have an SMI counter MSR_SMI_COUNT at 34h . A few ways to have a look at this:
  1. Intel BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS) SMI Latency Test
  2. turbostat - recent versions include SMI column
  3. rdmsr 0x34
Here's what I see on a Supermicro X10SAE C226 board with E3-1245v3 Haswell CPU:
  1. 935 SMI during 15s test
  2. SMI column is always 0
  3. MSR 0x34 never changes
??? I don't understand why these methods give such different results ???

I'm curious what others see on other hardware... Please post your results!

Thanks!
-Frank

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