HP Performance Analysis Toolkit

For 10.30:

The HP Performance Analysis Toolkit is a part of the Programmers' Toolset, which is bundled with the compiler products. The corresponding ISU product part numbers are:

B3472AA    PROG TOOLSET S800 Media
B3476AA    PROG TOOLSET S800 Manuals
B3477AA    PROG TOOLSET S700 Media
B3479AA    PROG TOOLSET S700 Manuals

Features

The HP PAK version 7.1 to be released on 10.30 has following major new functionalities:

Kernel thread support: ability to display performance metrics on a per-thread basis
Thread tracing: ability to display thread events across the entire run. (This would require a link option to turn on thread tracing in the pthread library).
Hierarchical call graphs: call graphs can now be displayed in both linear and structural form.
PUMA is localized in Japanese.

Summary of Change

In addition to the new features added, changes you might observe include the following:

GUI changes in the "Pan-Zoom" and "Play-back" window to incorporate kernel thread specific data.
Data format changes to include new metrics for kernel threads.
Main menu button changes and GUI menu changes for the call graph display to include hierarchical call graphs functionality.
Thread trace visualizer can be invoked from HP PAK or run as a stand-alone tool.
Improvements to the correctness of attributing statistics on CMA threads.
System call bias eliminated as a result of new 10.30 kernel support.
Additional bug fixes and minor GUI enhancements.
Tutorial added to the on-line help.

Impact

HP PAK version 7.1 only runs on 10.30 systems because it depends on thread support in the kernel. Because the data format has been changed to include new metrics, HP PAK 7.1 version cannot read data files generated by older version of HP PAK.

HP Performance Analysis Toolkit

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Features

Summary of Change

Impact