Perf (Linux profiling with performance counter) is powerful: it can instrument CPU performance counters, tracepoints, kprobes, and uprobes (dynamic tracing). It is capable of lightweight profiling. It ...

A miscellaneous collection of in-development and unsupported performance analysis tools for Linux ftrace and perf_events (aka the "perf" command). Both ftrace and perf are core Linux tracing tools, ...

Abstract: Most modern CPUs include hardware performance counters: architectural registers that allow programmers to gain low-level insight into system performance. Low-overhead access to these ...

KDAB, a German consulting firm that develops graphics and visualisation tools, has released Hotspot 1.0, a GUI too for visualising performance data generated by the Linux Perf tool. Perf analyses ...