Re: [perfmon2] questions about perfmon2

2009-09-15 Thread Drongowski, Paul
I think we're referring to the same kernel feature: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/perfcounters/ http://lwn.net/Articles/315944/ -- pj -Original Message- From: Godmar Back [mailto:god...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:29 PM To: Drongowski, Paul Cc: perfmon2-devel

Re: [perfmon2] questions about perfmon2

2009-09-15 Thread Dan Terpstra
Yup. The performance community started calling it PCL for shorthand, but the kernel guys are generally referring to it as perf_counters. - d > -Original Message- > From: Drongowski, Paul [mailto:paul.drongow...@amd.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:49 PM > To: Godmar Back > Cc: pe

[perfmon2] MSR on core2

2009-09-15 Thread Nagy Mostafa
Hi All, I was wondering if it is possible to do Last Branch Record (LBR) profiling on Core2 (E6700) processor with pfmon. What I have in mind is sampling the LBR and build something like an edge profile between basic blocks. And if it is not supported with pfmon, any ideas about any other tools tha

Re: [perfmon2] MSR on core2

2009-09-15 Thread stephane eranian
Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Nagy Mostafa wrote: > Hi All, > I was wondering if it is possible to do Last Branch Record (LBR) profiling > on Core2 (E6700) processor with pfmon. What I have in mind is sampling the > LBR and build something like an edge profile between basic blocks. And if