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* <tt>[[http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=20&sessionId=4&materialId=slides&confId=141309]] Perf presentation from CERN
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* <tt>[[http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=20&sessionId=4&materialId=slides&confId=141309 | Roberto Vitillo's presentation on Perf events]]

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perf: Linux profiling with performance counters

...More than just counters...

Introduction

This is the wiki page for the perf performance counters subsystem in Linux. Performance counters are CPU hardware registers that count hardware events such as instructions executed, cache-misses suffered, or branches mispredicted. They form a basis for profiling applications to trace dynamic control flow and identify hotspots.

perf provides rich generalized abstractions over hardware specific capabilities. Among others, it provides per task, per CPU and per-workload counters, sampling on top of these and source code event annotation.

The userspace perf tools present a simple to use interface with commands like

To learn more, see the examples in the Tutorial.

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