Re: aperf/mperf

From: George Neville-Neil <gnn_at_neville-neil.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:53:38 -0500
On Nov 16, 2010, at 09:37 , Andriy Gapon wrote:

> 
> Many modern processors provide APERF and MPERF MSRs which allow to easily and
> reliable calculate average CPU performance level over some interval of time.
> This also allows to notice things like performance boost, which is generally
> hidden from software.
> What would be a proper place to add code that would measure APERF/MPERF ratio?
> When should trigger such a measurement and over what interval?
> Ideas?

Can you point me at documentation for this?   This sounds a lot like
hwpmc(4) and I wonder if we can make these available in the same way.

Best,
George
Received on Thu Nov 18 2010 - 03:26:48 UTC

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