Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE and Intel® VTune™ Amplifier for Systems Help
TSX Exploration analysis type uses hardware event-based sampling collection and is targeted for the Intel® processors supporting Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel TSX). This analysis type collects events that help understand Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions behavior and causes of transactional aborts.
Syntax:
$ amplxe-cl -collect tsx-exploration [-knob <knobName=knobValue>] [--] <target>
Knobs: analysis-step, enable-user-tasks.
For the most current information on available knobs (configuration options) for the TSX Exploration analysis, enter:
$ amplxe-cl -help collect tsx-exploration
Example:
This example shows how to run the TSX Exploration analysis on myApplication with enabled user tasks analysis:
$ amplxe-cl -collect tsx-exploration -knob enable-user-tasks=true -- home/test/myApplicationWhen the data collection is complete, do one of the following to view the result:
Use the -report action to view the data from command line.
Use the -report-output action to write report to a .txt or .csv file
Open the data collection result (*.amplxe) in the VTune Amplifier graphical interface.