Hardware Counter Profiling on a Multithreaded Program

This chapter covers the following topics.

• About the Hardware Counter Profiling Tutorial

• Setting Up the mttest Sample Code

• Collecting Data From mttest for Hardware Counter Profiling Tutorial

• Examining the Hardware Counter Profiling Experiment for mttest

• Exploring Clock-Profiling Data

• Understanding Hardware Counter Instruction Profiling Metrics

• Understanding Hardware Counter CPU Cycles Profiling Metrics

• Understanding Cache Contention and Cache Profiling Metrics

• Detecting False Sharing