50 lines
2.5 KiB
Perl
50 lines
2.5 KiB
Perl
.\" Copyright (c) 1984 M. K. McKusick
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.\" Copyright (c) 1984 The Regents of the University of California.
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.\" @(#)1.t 1.2 (Berkeley) 11/8/90
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.\" $Id$
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.ds RH Introduction
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.NH 1
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Introduction
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.PP
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The purpose of this paper is to describe the tools and techniques
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that are available for improving the performance of the kernel.
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The primary tool used to measure the kernel is the hierarchical
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profiler \fIgprof\fP.
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The profiler enables the user to measure the cost of
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the abstractions that the kernel provides to the user.
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Once the expensive abstractions are identified,
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optimizations are postulated to help improve their performance.
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These optimizations are each individually
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verified to insure that they are producing a measurable improvement.
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