Performance Monitoring with PAPI
By Philip Mucci with contributions from Nils Smeds and Per Ekman, June 01, 2005
The Performance Application Programming Interface is a portable library of performance tools and instrumentation with wrappers for C, C++, Fortran, Java, and Matlab.
June, 2005: Performance Monitoring with PAPI
/avail -e PAPI_FP_INS
Test case avail.c: Available events and hardware information.
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Vendor string and code: AuthenticAMD (2)
Model string and code: AMD K8 Revision C (15)
CPU Revision: 8.000000
CPU Megahertz: 1993.626953
CPU's in this Node: 4
Nodes in this System: 1
Total CPU's: 4
Number Hardware Counters: 4
Max Multiplex Counters: 32
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Event name: PAPI_FP_INS
Event Code: 0x80000034
Number of Native Events: 1
Short Description: |FP instructions|
Long Description: |Floating point instructions|
|Native Code[0]: 0x40000002 FP_MULT_AND_ADD_PIPE|
|Number of Register Values: 2|
|Register[0]: 0xf P3 Ctr Mask|
|Register[1]: 0x300 P3 Ctr Code|
|Native Event Description: |Dispatched FPU ops - Revision B and later revisions -
Speculative multiply and add pipe ops excluding junk ops|
Figure 4: Output from the avail tool from the PAPI distribution.
