Chapter 6
CPUs
CPUs drive all software and are often the first target for systems performance analysis. This chapter explains CPU hardware and software, and shows how CPU usage can be examined in detail to look for performance improvements.
At a high level, system-wide CPU utilization can be monitored, and usage by process or thread can be examined. At a lower level, the code paths within applications and the kernel can be profiled and studied, as well as CPU usage by interrupts. At the lowest level, CPU instruction execution and cycle behavior can be analyzed. Other behaviors can also be investigated, including scheduler latency as tasks wait their turn on CPUs, which degrades performance.
The learning objectives of this chapter are:
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