From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:58:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from 209-232-97-206.ded.pacbell.net ([209.232.97.206]:163 "EHLO dns0.mips.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133835AbWFMW55 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:57:57 +0100 Received: from mercury.mips.com (sbcns-dmz [209.232.97.193]) by dns0.mips.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5DMvWNr011609; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ukservices1.mips.com (ukservices1 [192.168.192.240]) by mercury.mips.com (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k5DMvX4p027741; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bank.mips.com ([192.168.192.132] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ukservices1.mips.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FqHpA-0000el-00; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:57:28 +0100 Message-ID: <448F42D7.5060401@mips.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:57:27 +0100 From: Nigel Stephens Organization: MIPS Technologies Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Prasad Boddupalli CC: Jonathan Day , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Performance counters and profiling on MIPS References: <20060612225848.GA7163@linux-mips.org> <20060613212743.64709.qmail@web31506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MIPS-Technologies-UK-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MIPS-Technologies-UK-MailScanner-From: nigel@mips.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11726 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: nigel@mips.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Prasad Boddupalli wrote: > Perfctr (http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/) and PAPI > (http://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi/) are precisely such attempts. Except that > MIPS ports of them do not seem to be available. There's also perfmon2, for which a MIPS patch is available - though no idea how up-to-date it is. See http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Perfmon2 Nigel