Performance-Measurement Tools in a Multiprocessor Environment

  • Authors:
  • H. Burkhart;R. Millen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

A family of monitoring facilities is proposed which are used in combination, e.g. a breakpoint monitor used for debugging purposes, a mailbox monitor for analysis of synchronization traffic, and a bus monitor for measurements of bus load. These tools are used in multi-monitor mode, for which both a common programming-language interface and a user interface are provided. Design concepts are presented, along with the overall structure of such an integrated monitoring tool set in a multiprocessor environment. How a combination of hardware and software monitors is embedded into a MODULA-2 multiprocessor environment is outlined, as a case study.