Performance Engineering References

Linux

Perf

- Perf command can instrument CPU performance counters, tracepoints, kprobes, and uprobes to gather performance metrics.

- It is based on the perf_events interface exposed by the Linux kernel.

- Capable of gathering metrics on per-thread, per-process, per-cpu or system-wide basis.

Linux performance by Brendan Gregg

- A gold mine for anyone looking to learn about performance analysis. He also has a great blog.

Linux Tracing primer by Julia Evans

- Gives a short summary of how tracing is setup in linux.

Perf Github Docs

- Documentation on different perf tool features and related commands.