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Intel PMU profiling tools

11 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2014-05-13 · latest 2025-08-16

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  1. …but at least some of these tools can make use of that hardware: https://github.com/intel/pcm https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-08-16 · in Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible
  2. …[1] If you have an Intel CPU, toplev is particularly nice for pointing this kind of thing out. https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools
    comment by scottlamb · 2024-08-23 · in Adding 16 kb page size to Android
  3. …currently free to use, support most OSes and very friendly to use for beginner. - Intel pmu-tools ( https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools ) is basically command line version of Vtune.
    comment by soulbadguy · 2023-07-18 · in Gallery of Processor Cache Effects
  4. Toplev is a godsend (thank you Andi Kleen!). If you work with perf you'll love this. https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools/wiki/toplev-manual
    comment by bitcharmer · 2022-03-19 · in Linux Perf Examples
  5. Sort of. On Linux, have you tried toplev? https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools It uses CPU performance counters to show things like ITLB_Misses or MEM_Bandwidth. It won't show when you're waiting for GPU/SSD/etc because those aren't…
    comment by scottlamb · 2020-10-06 · in DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix
  6. …at intel. At the first run, it downloads a list of counter specific the CPU detected, pretty cool; https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools
    comment by soulbadguy · 2017-12-13 · in Intel 64 and IA32 Architectures Performance Monitoring Events [pdf]
  7. …ttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/perf/des... . The third is Andi Kleen's PMU Tools: https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools The 'jevents' library within this illustrates how to use 'perf' to set up the counters while using…
    comment by nkurz · 2016-03-13 · in How does perf work? (in which we read the Linux kernel source)
  8. …om/RRZE-HPC/likwid/wiki/Haswell-EP#memory-co... You also might have luck with Andi Kleen's pmu-tools: https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools/blob/master/ucevent/R... I don't know for sure if Intel's VTune supports these counters, but I'd…
    comment by nkurz · 2015-10-19 · in Memory Is Holding Up the Moore's Law Progression of Processing Power (2014)
  9. …tware.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-architecture... https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools https://code.google.com/p/likwid/
    comment by nkurz · 2014-08-29 · in Minting Money with Monero and CPU Vector Intrinsics
  10. …running this on? If Intel, you might have luck with some of the more Intel specific wrappers here: https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools You also might have better luck with 'likwid': https://code.google.com/p/likwid/ Here's the arguments…
    comment by nkurz · 2014-05-13 · in Computers are fast