Solaris Application Programming

By: Darryl Gove

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Hardcover | 1 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Solaris™ Application Programming is a comprehensive guide to optimizing the performance of applications running in your Solaris environment. From the fundamentals of system performance to using analysis and optimization tools to their fullest, this wide-ranging resource shows developers and software architects how to get the most from Solaris systems and applications.

Whether you’re new to performance analysis and optimization or an experienced developer searching for the most efficient ways to solve performance issues, this practical guide gives you the background information, tips, and techniques for developing, optimizing, and debugging applications on Solaris.

The text begins with a detailed overview of the components that affect system performance. This is followed by explanations of the many developer tools included with Solaris OS and the Sun Studio compiler, and then it takes you beyond the basics with practical, real-world examples. In addition, you will learn how to use the rich set of developer tools to identify performance problems, accurately interpret output from the tools, and choose the smartest, most efficient approach to correcting specific problems and achieving maximum system performance.

Coverage includes

A discussion of the chip multithreading (CMT) processors from Sun and how they change the way that developers need to think about performance
A detailed introduction to the performance analysis and optimization tools included with the Solaris OS and Sun Studio compiler
Practical examples for using the developer tools to their fullest, including informational tools, compilers, floating point optimizations, libraries and linking, performance profilers, and debuggers
Guidelines for interpreting tool analysis output
Optimization, including hardware performance counter metrics and source code optimizations
Techniques for improving application performance using multiple processes, or multiple threads
An overview of hardware and software components that affect system performance, including coverage of SPARC and x64 processors

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Preface	p. xix
Overview of the Processor	p. 1
The Generic Processor	p. 3
Chapter Objectives	p. 3
The Components of a Processor	p. 3
Clock Speed	p. 4
Out-of-Order Processors	p. 5
Chip Multithreading	p. 6
Execution Pipes	p. 7
Caches	p. 11
Interacting with the System	p. 14
Virtual Memory	p. 16
Indexing and Tagging of Memory	p. 18
Instruction Set Architecture	p. 18
The SPARC Family	p. 21
Chapter Objectives	p. 21
The UltraSPARC Family	p. 21
The SPARC Instruction Set	p. 23
32-bit and 64-bit Code	p. 30
The UltraSPARC III Family of Processors	p. 30
UltraSPARC T1	p. 37
UltraSPARC T2	p. 37
SPARC64 VI	p. 38
The x64 Family of Processors	p. 39
Chapter Objectives	p. 39
The x64 Family of Processors	p. 39
The x86 Processor: CISC and RISC	p. 40
Byte Ordering	p. 41
Instruction Template	p. 42
Registers	p. 43
Instruction Set Extensions and Floating Point	p. 46
Memory Ordering	p. 46
Developer Tools	p. 47
Informational Tools	p. 4
Chapter Objectives	p. 49
Tools That Report System Configuration	p. 49
Tools That Report Current System Status	p. 55
Process- and Processor-Specific Tools	p. 72
Information about Applications	p. 84
Using the Compiler	p. 93
Chapter Objectives	p. 93
Three Sets of Compiler Options	p. 93
Using -xtarget=generic on x86	p. 95
Optimization	p. 96
Generating Debug Information	p. 102
Selecting the Target Machine Type for an Application	p. 103
Code Layout Optimizations	p. 107
General Compiler Optimizations	p. 116
Pointer Aliasing in C and C++	p. 123
Other C- and C++-Specific Compiler Optimizations	p. 133
Fortran-Specific Compiler Optimizations	p. 135
Compiler Pragmas	p. 136
Using Pragmas in C for Finer Aliasing Control	p. 142
Compatibility with GCC	p. 147
Floating-Point Optimization	p. 149
Chapter Objectives	p. 149
Floating-Point Optimization Flags	p. 149
Floating-Point Multiply Accumulate Instructions	p. 173
Integer Math	p. 174
Floating-Point Parameter Passing with SPARC V8 Code	p. 178
Libraries and Linking	p. 181
Introduction	p. 181
Linking	p. 181
Libraries of Interest	p. 193
Library Calls	p. 199
Performance Profiling Tools	p. 207
Introduction	p. 207
The Sun Studio Performance Analyzer	p. 207
Collecting Profiles	p. 208
Compiling for the Performance Analyzer	p. 210
Viewing Profiles Using the GUI	p. 210
Caller Callee Information	p. 212
Using the Command-Line Tool for Performance Analysis	p. 214
Interpreting Profiles	p. 215
Intepreting Profiles from UltraSPARC III/IV Processors	p. 217
Profiling Using Performance Counters	p. 218
Interpreting Call Stacks	p. 219
Generating Mapfiles	p. 222
Generating Reports on Performance Using spot	p. 223
Profiling Memory Access Patterns	p. 226
er_kernel	p. 233
Tail-Call Optimization and Debug	p. 235
Gathering Profile Information Using gprof	p. 237
Using tcov to Get Code Coverage Information	p. 239
Using dtrace to Gather Profile and Coverage Information	p. 241
Compiler Commentary	p. 244
Correctness and Debug	p. 247
Introduction	p. 247
Compile-Time Checking	p. 248
Runtime Checking	p. 256
Debugging Using dbx	p. 262
Locating Optimization Bugs Using ATS	p. 271
Debugging Using mdb	p. 274
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