I have collected data of Number of L2 cache misses using PAPI. I had run an MPI application with 4 threads (mpirun -np 4) and each thread reads the cache misses in L2. Each thread outputs data for every timestamp. eg:
Timestamp data
xxx530 thread# 0 2136
xxx531 thread# 0 3217
.. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
xxx550 thread# 0 412334255
xxx530 thread #1 2456
xxx531 thread#1 4243
xxx532 thread #1 4567
and so on
Now my qstn , is whether i shud add all the cache miss values at time stamp xxx530 for thread 0,1, 2 and 3 OR shud i take the max-value for thrreda0,1,2,3 for timestamp xxx530 ?