インテル® VTune™ Amplifier 2018 ヘルプ
This metric is defined as a ratio of the number of cycles when no micro-operations are retired to all cycles. In the absence of performance issues, long latency operations, and dependency chains, retire stalls are insignificant. Otherwise, retire stalls result in a performance penalty. On processors based on the Intel microarchitecture code name Nehalem, this metric is based on precise events that do not suffer from significant skid.
A high number of retire stalls is detected. This may result from branch misprediction, instruction starvation, long latency operations, and other issues. Use this metric to find where you have stalled instructions. Once you have located the problem, analyze metrics such as LLC Miss, Execution Stalls, Remote Accesses, Data Sharing, and Contested Accesses, or look for long-latency instructions like divisions and string operations to understand the cause.