From: Christos D. <dim...@id...> - 2005-04-06 15:43:05
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> > Have you considered using oprofile (support is included in 2.6 kernels)? > I've made some good experience with it profiling graphics drivers, > including kernel drivers. The nice thing about oprofile is that it > doesn't need code instrumentation. And if your CPU supports it (all > recent AMD and Intel CPUs do) you can even profile stuff like cache > misses. > Up to know I have been trying to use gprof, which I guess has minimal instrumentation because it is statistical, but have had little success with it so far with loadable modules. I'll definitely give oprofile a shot once I upgrade my kernel then. -- Christos Dimitrakakis IDIAP (http://www.idiap.ch/~dimitrak/main.html) |