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Basic Profiling

This document provides basic instructions for measuring performance using readprofile and Oprofile tools on Linux. It includes steps for installation, configuration, and execution of the profiling commands. Users are advised to ensure proper kernel settings and configurations for accurate results.

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Basic Profiling

This document provides basic instructions for measuring performance using readprofile and Oprofile tools on Linux. It includes steps for installation, configuration, and execution of the profiling commands. Users are advised to ensure proper kernel settings and configurations for accurate results.

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These instructions are deliberately very basic.

If you want something clever,


go read the real docs ;-) Please don't add more stuff, but feel free to
correct my mistakes ;-) ([email protected])
Thanks to John Levon, Dave Hansen, et al. for help writing this.

<test> is the thing you're trying to measure.


Make sure you have the correct System.map / vmlinux referenced!

It is probably easiest to use "make install" for linux and hack


/sbin/installkernel to copy vmlinux to /boot, in addition to vmlinuz,
config, System.map, which are usually installed by default.

Readprofile
-----------
A recent readprofile command is needed for 2.6, such as found in util-linux
2.12a, which can be downloaded from:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/

Most distributions will ship it already.

Add "profile=2" to the kernel command line.

clear readprofile -r
<test>
dump output readprofile -m /boot/System.map > captured_profile

Oprofile
--------

Get the source (see Changes for required version) from


http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command
line.

Configure with CONFIG_PROFILING=y and CONFIG_OPROFILE=y & reboot on new kernel

./configure --with-kernel-support
make install

For superior results, be sure to enable the local APIC. If opreport sees
a 0Hz CPU, APIC was not on. Be aware that idle=poll may mean a performance
penalty.

One time setup:


opcontrol --setup --vmlinux=/boot/vmlinux

clear opcontrol --reset


start opcontrol --start
<test>
stop opcontrol --stop
dump output opreport > output_file

To only report on the kernel, run opreport -l /boot/vmlinux > output_file

A reset is needed to clear old statistics, which survive a reboot.

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