Thanks for providing a patch so quickly :) 2016-10-04 16:10, Jerin Jacob: > +The PMU based scheme useful for high accuracy performance profiling.
A verb is missing. > +Find below the example steps to configure the PMU based cycle counter on an > +armv8 machine. > + > +.. code-block:: console > + > + git clone https://github.com/jerinjacobk/armv8_pmu_cycle_counter_el0 > + cd armv8_pmu_cycle_counter_el0 > + make > + sudo insmod pmu_el0_cycle_counter.ko > + cd $DPDK_DIR > + make config T=arm64-armv8a-linuxapp-gcc > + echo "CONFIG_RTE_ARM_EAL_RDTSC_USE_PMU=y" >> build/.config > + make What about the ARM 32 code that Jan is using? > +.. warning:: > + > + This method can not be used in production systems as this may alter PMU > + state used by standard Linux user space tool like perf. More details please?