Collaboration Summit 2013 - Linux Perf Tools: Overview and Current Developments

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The Linux Foundation
Collaboration Summit 2013
San Francisco, California
Linux Perf Tools: Overview and Current Developments
By Arnaldo Carvalho De Melo & Jiri Olsa

This presentation will give an overview and current development stateof several new perf features, like:
Perf diff enhancements: describing newly added computation data comparison methods    ratio, delta and weighted diff plus introducing multiple perf data file comparison
Group leader sampling: Describing new way of getting group's samples
Callchains DWARF unwind: Moving towards libdwarf
Default precise event setup: Forcing precise event profiling whenever possible
Interval stat plotting: The stat command can now print event deltas at regular    time interval.
We will describe above features in detail and provide practical usage examples. In addition, this session will cover some 'want to have' features for the future, like: Event toggling event, Non-architectural events support the trace event library integration.

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