The first value is the number of clock ticks that occured when that
particular function was executed. So it is the cumulative count
This might help you more...
"
The readprofile command uses the /proc/profile information
to print ascii data on standard output. The output is
organized in three columns: the first is the number of
clock ticks, the second is the name of the C function in
the kernel where those many ticks occurred, and the third
is the normalized `load' of the procedure, calculated as a
ratio between the number of ticks and the length of the
procedure. The output is filled with blanks to ease read
ability.
"
HTH,
raghu
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Daniele Bellucci wrote:
> Because you are at it, could you tellme if clock number is a cumulative count?
>
> ( there is no info about it in man page ;) )
>
> On Sun 22 June 2003 22:26, Raghu R. Arur wrote:
> > check out man readprofile(1)... it has the needed info..
> >
> > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Daniele Bellucci wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > can any one tell "explain" the output of readprofile?
> > >
> > > taking as example the folowing ordered output:
> > >
> > > 15 handle_IRQ_event 0.1339
> > > 11 __generic_copy_to_user 0.1146
> > > 6 do_softirq 0.0268
> > >
> > > what does the number in the first row means?
> > > what is 15? and it's related 0.1339?
> > >
> > > is 15 a jiffies counter?
> > >
> > >
> > > Daniele.
> > >
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