[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer Profiling

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Sat Jan 19 20:59:00 CET 2002


Hi,

> On Saturday 19 January 2002 18:14, Mike Melanson wrote:
> > Hi team,
> > 	I've been playing with the profiling support in MPlayer. I never
> > even knew about the time stamp counter before. Pretty spiffy. A few
> > questions:
> >
> > 1) Is the time stamp counter part of a process' context, so that
> > context-switching can't mess with it?
> dunno, i would guess its not saved :(

afaik it's realtime, not usertime.
it counts the clock ticks from the poweron/reset of the cpu.

but a kernel patch for a per-process tick counter shouldn't be too hard :)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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