HP Caliper 5.7 User Guide (769153-001, March 2014)

• dtlb
The dtlb measurement measures and reports sampled data translation lookaside buffer (TLB)
misses. See “dtlb Measurement Report Description” (p. 201).
• ecount
The ecount measurement measures and reports total CPU event counts. See “ecount
Measurement Report Description” (p. 206).
• fcount (HP-UX only)
The fcount measurement measures and reports function call counts in a program. See “fcount
Measurement Report Description ” (p. 208).
• fcover (HP-UX only)
The fcover measurement measures and reports function call coverage in a program. See
“fcover Measurement Report Description ” (p. 209).
• fprof
The fprof measurement measures and reports a function profile. See “fprof Measurement Report
Description” (p. 210).
• icache
The icache measurement measures and reports sampled instruction cache metrics. See “icache
Measurement Report Description” (p. 215).
• itlb
The itlb measurement measures and reports sampled instruction TLB misses. See “itlb
Measurement Report Description” (p. 219).
• pmu_trace
The pmu_trace measurement measures and reports traces of sampled PMU data for each
kernel thread. See “pmu_trace Measurement Report Description” (p. 224).
• scgprof
The scgprof measurement measures and reports (an inexact) call graph profile, produced by
sampling the PMU to determine function calls. See “Producing a Sampled Call Graph Profile
Analysis” (p. 122) and “scgprof Measurement Report Description” (page 224).
• traps
The traps measurement collects and reports a profile of traps, interrupts, and faults. See “traps
Measurement Report Description ” (page 227).
These measurement configuration files are grouped into three categories based on the primary
type of measurement, as shown in Table 1 (page 44).
Table 1 Available Measurements in Each Measurement Type
Precise (HP-UX only)SampledGlobal
ecount cgprofalat
fcountbranch
fcovercgprof
cpu
cstack
cycles
dcache
dtlb
fprof
icache
44 HP Caliper Measurement Configuration Files