Methodologies
Start cooking your performance analysis. Understand tuning techniques, performance metrics and hardware solutions to collect statistics. Next, drill down to particular tuning or configuration recipes that feature
Intel® VTune™
or its predecessor, Intel® VTune™ Amplifier.
Profiler
Recipe
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Understand how an application utilizes available hardware resources. Enable it to take advantage of CPU microarchitectures.
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Analyze CPU utilization of your OpenMP* or hybrid OpenMP-MPI application. Identify causes for possible inefficiencies.
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Estimate overhead when offloading onto an Intel GPU. Analyze the performance of computing tasks offloaded onto the GPU.
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Examine metrics that characterize core utilization in terms of packet receiving in DPDK-based applications.
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Examine PCIe Bandwidth metrics used in
Intel® VTune™
and investigate PCIe traffic for a packet forwarding DPDK-based workload.
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Analyze the efficiency of DPDK Event Device pipeline utilization in your DPDK-based application. Identify issues like inhomogeneous load distribution and worker core underutilization.
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Use
Intel® VTune™
to examine the utilization efficiency of the Intel® Data Direct I/O technology, a hardware feature of Intel® Xeon® processors.
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Explore the methods of compiling an application binary for distribution, with their pros and cons. Learn to compile a portable binary that uses the latest hardware features while retaining backwards compatibility.
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