SHORT  Cycles per instruction

EVENTSET
PMC0  INSTRUCTIONS_EXECUTED
PMC1  CPU_CLK_UNHALTED

METRICS
Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time
Runtime unhalted [s]  PMC1*inverseClock
CPI   PMC1/PMC0
IPC   PMC0/PMC1

LONG
This group measures how efficient the processor works with
regard to instruction throughput. Also important as a standalone
metric is INSTRUCTIONS_RETIRED as it tells you how many instruction
you need to execute for a task. An optimization might show very
low CPI values but execute many more instruction for it.

