Meetings and Events
Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters,
George Neville-Neil
Media
Speaker Biography
2008-11-05 @
18:30 -
Suspenders Bar and Restaurant
Abstract
Many modern CPUs provide on chip counters for performance events such as retiring instructions and cache misses. The hwpmc driver and libraries in FreeBSD give systems administrators and programmers access to APIs which make it possible to measure performance without modifying source code and with minimal intrusion into application execution. This talk will be a brief introduction to HWPMC, and how to use it.
- [Event Audio] (Generously recorded and processed by Nikolai Fetissov)
Speaker Biography
George Neville-Neil is the co-author with Kirk McKusick of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. He works on networking an operating systems for fun and profit.