Further information on the Intel Top-Down Methodology

Software Optimizations Become Simple with Top-Down Analysis Methodology (TMAM) on Intel Microarchitecture Code Name Skylake Ahmad Yasin. Intel Developer Forum, IDF 2015.	[Recording] [session direct link] [TMAM_Metrics]
A Top-Down Method for Performance Analysis and Counters Architecture Ahmad Yasin. In IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, ISPASS 2014.	[paper] [slides] [data]
How to Tune Applications Using a Top-Down Characterization of Microarchitectural Issues Jackson Marusarz, Shannon Cepeda, Ahmad Yasin. Intel whitepaper 2013.	[paper]
Intel Architecture Optimization Reference Manual Appendix B.1: Top-Down Analysis Method	[html]
An open-source implementation with Andi Kleen's pmu-tools/toplev	[manual]