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Profiling on Cortex A9 RTSM with cache enabled
Naveen G
over 12 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 19th November 2009 at
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I am new to RVDS tools. I profiled my code on realview profiler. How reliable are these figures. Does these figures consider I-Cache and D-Cache effects. Is the cache enabled by default in RTSM or do I need to enable.
Naveen G
over 12 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 20th November 2009 at
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What are the other means by which I can profile on Cortex A9 accurately other than actual hardware.
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Peter Harris
over 12 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 20th November 2009 at
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RTSM models are not accurate - they are high speed functional models, not performance models. ARM binaries get cross-compiled in to x86 code, and that is what gets executed - so you really see the performance characteristics of the x86 cache size =)
The profiler itself has a simple pipeline model for identifying interlocks, although as A9 is an out-of-order core I'm not sure how much use this will be =)
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Peter Harris
over 12 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 20th November 2009 at
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I'm not aware of any cycle-accurate or even cycle-approximate system models for a Cortex-A9 (could be wrong).
Real hardware really is the best option if you want accuracy for high speed application cores - system behaviors such as L1 cache sizes, L2 size and latency, and L3 bus bandwidth / latency are really all critical to the performance of software running on a modern processor, and are all things which models tend to ignore.
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