HP Caliper User Guide Release 5.5 (5900-2351, August 2012)

• dtlb
The dtlb measurement measures and reports sampled data translation lookaside buffer (TLB)
misses. See “dtlb Measurement Report Description” (p. 199).
• ecount
The ecount measurement measures and reports total CPU event counts. See “ecount
Measurement Report Description” (p. 204).
• fcount (HP-UX only)
The fcount measurement measures and reports function call counts in a program. See “fcount
Measurement Report Description ” (p. 206).
• fcover (HP-UX only)
The fcover measurement measures and reports function call coverage in a program. See
“fcover Measurement Report Description ” (p. 207).
• fprof
The fprof measurement measures and reports a function profile. See “fprof Measurement Report
Description” (p. 208).
• icache
The icache measurement measures and reports sampled instruction cache metrics. See “icache
Measurement Report Description” (p. 213).
• itlb
The itlb measurement measures and reports sampled instruction TLB misses. See “itlb
Measurement Report Description” (p. 217).
• pmu_trace
The pmu_trace measurement measures and reports traces of sampled PMU data for each
kernel thread. See “pmu_trace Measurement Report Description” (p. 222).
• scgprof
The scgprof measurement measures and reports (an inexact) call graph profile, produced by
sampling the PMU to determine function calls. See “Producing a Sampled Call Graph Profile
Analysis” (p. 121) and “scgprof Measurement Report Description” (page 222).
• traps
The traps measurement collects and reports a profile of traps, interrupts, and faults. See “traps
Measurement Report Description ” (page 225).
These measurement configuration files are grouped into three categories based on the primary
type of measurement, as shown in Table 1 (page 43).
Table 1 Available Measurements in Each Measurement Type
Precise (HP-UX only)SampledGlobal
ecount cgprofalat
fcountbranch
fcovercgprof
cpu
cstack
cycles
dcache
dtlb
fprof
icache
Measurement Configuration Files Provided with HP Caliper 43