Tutorial
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Prerequisites
Step 1: Install VTune™ Profiler
Step 2: Prepare a Yocto Project*-Based Image
Step 3: Enable Intel® TCC Mode in BIOS
Step 4: Download and Install the Package
Step 5: Prepare Host Machine for Development
Step 6: Install on Target
Step 7: Configure Intel® TCC Tools in BIOS
Step 8: Complete the Target System Setup
Step 9: Verify the Target System Setup
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Find Hotspots
This tutorial focuses on hotspots related to memory access. In this context, hotspots are memory objects (such as arrays) in your real-time application that have a high number of Level 2 (L2) or Level 3 (L3) cache misses.
Intel® Time Coordinated Computing Tools (Intel® TCC Tools) offers the cache allocation library, a set of C APIs that can decrease the number of misses by allocating buffers in L2 and L3 cache. Since cache is smaller than DRAM, it is important to choose carefully which memory objects to target so as not to overuse the cache. Hotspots are the prime candidates. The first step to using the cache allocation library is to find the hotspots in your application.
This tutorial shows how to find hotspots at the L2 and L3 cache levels with VTune™ Profiler. In general, consider the size and time sensitivity of the data to decide which cache level to analyze. If the data size is small and access is highly time critical, it’s more relevant to check L2 misses. In other cases, check L3 misses.
This tutorial uses a provided sample application as an example.