Performance and Diagnostics

Recording Hardware Performance (PMU) Events with Complete Examples

June 20, 2022 Jun 20, 2022 06/20/22

Sowoon Pyo

Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) events are used to measure CPU performance and understand workloads CPU characterization. Windows provides a way to collect PMU events through Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). When combined with other ETW events, we can tell a lot more concrete story about the performance. I recently added “Recording Hardware ...