CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS: OProfile AMD IBS support (EXPERIMENTAL)

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS:

• prompt: OProfile AMD IBS support (EXPERIMENTAL)
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_OPROFILE && CONFIG_SMP && CONFIG_X86
• defined in arch/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.28–2.6.33

Help text

Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) is a new profiling technique that provides rich, precise program performance information. IBS is introduced by AMD Family10h processors (AMD Opteron Quad-Core processor "Barcelona") to overcome the limitations of conventional performance counter sampling.

If unsure, say N.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• (none)

Sources

This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

The data is retrived from:

• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

Automatic links from Google (and ads)

Custom Search

Popular queries: