Improved estimation for software multiplexing of performance counters

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 23-32

  Mathur, Wiplove ^a   Cook, Jeanine ^b  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIXED SAMPLING PERIODS; ON-CHIP PERFORMANCE; ROUND-ROBIN SCHEDULING; VALIDATION TOOL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; MULTIPLEXING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SAMPLING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 33646925886     PISSN: 15267539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOTS.2005.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. Performance inspector. http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/pi/.
2. Vtune profiling software, http://www.intel.com/software/products/vtune/.
3. AMD. BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide for AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron Processors. AMD, September 2003.
4. R. Berrendorf, H. Ziegler, and B. Molar. PCL - the performance counter library: A common interface to access hardware performance counters on microprocessors. Research Centre Juelich GmbH, http://www.fzjuelich.de/zam/PCL/ Version 2.1, February 2002.
5. S. Browne, J. Dongarra, N. Garner, G. Ho, and P. Mucci. A portable programming interface for performance evaluation on modern processors. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 14(3):189-204, Fall 2000.
6. J. Gibson, R. Kunz, D. Ofelt, and M. Heinrich. FLASH vs. (simulated) FLASH: Closing the simulation loop. In Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pages 49-58, 2000.
7. D. Heller. Rabbit: A performance counters library for Intel/AMD processors and linux. http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/projects/rabbit/.
8. Intel. IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3: System Programming Guide.
9. Intel. Intel Itanium 2 Processor Reference Manual for Software Development and Optimization.
10. W. Korn, P. Teller, and G. Castillo. Just how accurate are performance counters? In 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, Phoenix, Arizona., April 2001.
11. K. London, J. Dongarra, S. Moore, P. Mucci, K. Seymour, and T. Spencer. End-user tools for application performance analysis, using hardware counters. In International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Dallas, TX, August 8-10 2001.
12. J. M. May. MPX: Software for multiplexing hardware performance counters in multithreaded programs. In Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium., Proceedings 15th International, pages 8 -, April 2001.
13. MIPS Technologies. R10000 Microprocessor User's Manual - Version 1.0. MIPS Technologies Inc., Mountain View, CA, June 1995.
14. A. K. Ojha. Techniques in least-intrusive computer system performance monitoring. In SoutheastCon 2001. Proceedings. IEEE, pages 150-154, 2001.
15. M. Pettersson. Linux x86 performance-monitoring counters driver, http://www.csd.uu.se/mikpe/linux/perfctr/.
16. S. P. E. C. (SPEC), http://www.spec.org.
17. B. Sprunt. Pentium 4 performance-monitoring features. MICRO, 22(4):72-82, 2002.
18. S. Vetter. The POWER4 Processor Introduction and Tuning Guide. IBM Corporation, International Technical Support Organization, first edition, November 2001.