Supported Features

Remote Collection from Host System

Install
VTune
Profiler
on your Linux*, Windows*, or macOS* host. Refer to the Installation Guide for your host system for detailed instructions.
Install the appropriate sampling drivers on the FreeBSD target system. For more information, see FreeBSD* System Setup.
[Optional] If you want to collect performance data with stacks, build your FreeBSD target application using the
-fno-omit-frame-pointer
compiler option, to allow the sampling collector to determine the call chain via frame pointer analysis.
Collect performance data using remote analysis from the host system from the
VTune
Profiler
command line or GUI.
Create or open a project.
Specify your target application and remote system and make sure to specify search directories for symbol/source files required for finalization on the host.
Choose and configure an analysis type.
Supported
VTune
Profiler
analysis types (event-based sampling analysis only) include:
Hotspots (
hardware event-based sampling
mode)
Microarchitecture Exploration
Memory Access (without heap object allocation tracking)
Input and Output (with hardware event-based metrics and SPDK analysis; without MMIO accesses and DPDK analysis)
Custom Analysis
Run the analysis from the host. Depending on your settings, the application launches and runs automatically. Once collection is finished, the result is finalized and displayed with the
Summary
window open.
Review the results on the host system.

Native Collection on FreeBSD System

Install
VTune
Profiler
on your Linux*, Windows*, or macOS* host. Refer to the Installation Guide for your host system for detailed instructions.
Install the appropriate sampling drivers on the FreeBSD target system. For more information, see FreeBSD* System Setup.
[Optional] If you want to collect performance data with stacks, build your FreeBSD target application using the
-fno-omit-frame-pointer
compiler option, which allows the sampling collector to determine the call chain via frame pointer analysis.
Collect performance data using one of the following methods. For more information about each of these methods, see Remote Linux Target Setup.
Native analysis on the target system using the
VTune
Profiler
command line (
vtune
). Supported analysis types include: hotspots, uarch-exploration, memory-access, io or custom event-based sampling analysis.
Native analysis on the target system using the sampling enabling product (SEP) collectors. For more information, see the Sampling Enabling Product User Guide.
Copy the results to the host system.
Review the results with
VTune
Profiler
.
If you used the
vtune
command, open the
*.
vtune
file.
If you collected SEP data, import the
*.tb7
file.