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[Mikael Pettersson]

Vance Shipley writes:
 > 
 > The R9B-0 configure script has a couple new options:
 > 
 > --enable-tsp            (compile tsp app)
 > --enable-kernel-poll    (enable kernel poll support)
 > --with-perfctr=PATH     (specify location of perfctr include and lib)
 > 
 > What is perfctr?

perfctr is a Linux/x86 kernel extension and library for accessing
x86 performance-counters. In contrast to other performance-counter
drivers, it fully virtualises the performance counters as a
per-process resource.

Its use in HiPE is currently very basic: as a source for a high-res
process clock using the virtualised time-stamp counter.

The current stable release perfctr-2.4.1 is available at
<http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/>.

perfctr is a low-level interface which does not hide any of the
CPU-specific details one must get right when programming performance
counters. Higher-level tools are provided by e.g. PAPI; see
<http://icl.cs.utk.edu/projects/papi/>.

Most users should just ignore the --with-perfctr=PATH option.

/Mikael