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From: Nigel Stephens <nigel@mips.com>
To: Philip Mucci <mucci@cs.utk.edu>
Cc: Linux-mips@linux-mips.org, perfmon@napali.hpl.hp.com,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc2 perfmon2 new code base with MIPS5K/20K support +	libpfm available
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:33:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43CFB130.7000105@mips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137679457.6648.137.camel@localhost.localdomain>



Philip Mucci wrote:

>perfmon is intended up be used for performance tuning in production
>multiprogrammed environments, although it also has system-wide and
>per-cpu counting modes. So you can have multiple people using the
>counters inside their processes and threads and all the counts are
>preserved as the state and the full 64 bit values are part of the
>process context, for the per-thread monitoring modes.
>  
>

How does perfmon differ from the perfctr project, which seems to be 
doing something very similar? See http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/

>
>
>Anyways, glad to hear other folks are as interested in performance
>analysis!
>
>  
>

We most definitely are, in particular we are looking for good tools with 
which to analyse threaded applications running on multi-threading 
hardware. Does this version of perfmon support threaded code?

Nigel

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-19 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-19 10:30 2.6.13-rc2 perfmon2 new code base with MIPS5K/20K support + libpfm available Philip Mucci
2006-01-19 13:36 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-01-19 14:04   ` Philip Mucci
2006-01-19 15:33     ` Nigel Stephens [this message]
2006-01-19 15:41       ` Philip Mucci
2006-01-19 18:16   ` Stephane Eranian
2006-01-19 18:38     ` [perfmon] " Philip Mucci
2006-01-19 19:14       ` Stephane Eranian
2006-01-19 19:30         ` Philip Mucci
2006-01-19 19:59           ` Stephane Eranian

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