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Profile Your Application
========================

Intel processors provide performance counters to monitor events.
Some tools provided by Intel can be used to profile and benchmark an application.
See the *VTune Performance Analyzer Essentials* publication from Intel Press for more information.

For a DPDK application, this can be done in a Linux* application environment only.

The main situations that should be monitored through event counters are:

*   Cache misses

*   Branch mis-predicts

*   DTLB misses

*   Long latency instructions and exceptions

Refer to the
`Intel Performance Analysis Guide <http://software.intel.com/sites/products/collateral/hpc/vtune/performance_analysis_guide.pdf>`_
for details about application profiling.