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Advanced Event Sampling Support for PAPI
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Workshop
W
Performance
Productivity
TimeFriday, November 16th9:40am - 10am
LocationD161
DescriptionThe PAPI performance library is a widely used tool for gathering performance data from running applications. Modern processors support advanced sampling interfaces, such as Intel's Precise Event Based Sampling (PEBS) and AMD's Instruction Based Sampling (IBS). The current PAPI sampling interface predates the existence of these interfaces and only provides simple instruction-pointer based samples.
We propose a new, improved, sampling interface that provides support for the extended sampling information available on modern hardware. We extend the PAPI interface to add a new PAPI_sample_init call that uses the Linux perf_event interface to access the extra sampled information. A pointer to these samples is returned to the user, who can either decode them on the fly, or write them to disk for later analysis.
By providing extended sampling information, this new PAPI interface allows advanced performance analysis and optimization that was previously not possible. This will enhance the ability to optimize software in modern extreme-scale programming environments.
We propose a new, improved, sampling interface that provides support for the extended sampling information available on modern hardware. We extend the PAPI interface to add a new PAPI_sample_init call that uses the Linux perf_event interface to access the extra sampled information. A pointer to these samples is returned to the user, who can either decode them on the fly, or write them to disk for later analysis.
By providing extended sampling information, this new PAPI interface allows advanced performance analysis and optimization that was previously not possible. This will enhance the ability to optimize software in modern extreme-scale programming environments.
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