Re: Kernel profiles anyone?

From: Neil Horman
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 06:33:10 EST


On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:26:55AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 21:35 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> > Are there any recent kernel profiles? I think from an acedemic
> > perspective it'd be nice to see some graphs and numbers nobody
> > understands showing where the longest running code paths in the kernel
> > occur. It might also be nice for those latency whores (*runs to the
> > back and raises hand*) and those who want to increase overall
> > performance and efficiency; then there'd be a map showing . . .
> > something that only kernel hackers could possibly understand or care about.
>
oprofile is designed to do exactly this. just set it up and run the workload
you are interested in.

Regards
Neil


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