2021 · 2021 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon)
System Execution Path Profiling Using Hardware Performance Counters
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performance-analysis resource-analysis multicore-systems system-tracing
execution paths hardware performance counters critical-path profiling CPython sampling SysCon 2021
Core contribution: The program abstract identifies a method for profiling execution paths from sampled hardware performance counters.
Catalog abstract summary
The official program abstract describes critical-path profiling using hardware-counter samples every 100,000 cycles, user-space interrupt signaling, and comparison with CPython behavior.
Source: Official SysCon program abstract, paraphrased; full text not obtained.
Problem and motivation
Execution-path behavior and performance variation can be difficult to observe without relating hardware-counter activity to program paths.
Method and contribution
The abstract reports counter sampling every 100,000 cycles, user-space interrupt signaling, and critical-path profiling; the exact counters, instrumentation, and analysis are not verified.
Findings and evidence
The program mentions a CPython comparison, but no page-grounded metric or result is available.
Limitations and future directions
Limitations: Full-text evidence is required to verify the counter set, overhead, workloads, baselines, and validity conditions.
Future work: The paper-specific future-work section remains unverified.
Sources and identifiers
- Published version published
- Official SysCon program public_source_record
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Citation
@inproceedings{ezzatiJivan2021systemexecution,
author = {Francis Giraldeau and Naser Ezzati-Jivan and Michel R. Dagenais},
title = {System Execution Path Profiling Using Hardware Performance Counters},
year = {2021},
booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon)},
pages = {1-8},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi = {10.1109/SYSCON48628.2021.9447121},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON48628.2021.9447121}
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Giraldeau, F., Ezzati-Jivan, N., & Dagenais, M. R. (2021). System Execution Path Profiling Using Hardware Performance Counters. In 2021 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon) (pp. 1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON48628.2021.9447121F. Giraldeau, N. Ezzati-Jivan, and M. R. Dagenais, "System Execution Path Profiling Using Hardware Performance Counters," in 2021 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), pp. 1-8, 2021, doi: 10.1109/SYSCON48628.2021.9447121