readprofile

[Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com>]

Hi,

I have a question of the output of readprofile.

I got output, for example,

$ /usr/sbin/readprofile -m /boot/System.map|sort -rn|head
713683 total                                      0.6772
705929 default_idle                             17648.2250
   743 kmalloc                                    1.6294
   491 handle_IRQ_event                           5.3370
   371 __rdtsc_delay                             13.2500
   348 kmem_cache_alloc                           0.8878
   330 kfree                                      0.5288
   285 unix_poll                                  1.9257
   265 system_call                                4.7321
   264 do_select                                  0.5546

Does kmalloc spend '743' clock ticks? If so,
what does 'clock ticks' mean?

My note is the following
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 597.416
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1192.75

I have boot "profile=2"

Please cc to me, because I'm not on the kernelnewbies mailing
list.

Thanks in advance,
  Hiro
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