Resource Contention Data Views

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This section contains reference information for the views and reports of profiler data files that contain thread contention profiling data.

In This Section

• Summary View - Profiler Contention Data

Displays a graphical timeline of the profiling data and lists the functions and resources that participated in the most blocking events.

• Call Tree View

Displays a hierarchical tree that represents the execution paths and resource contention data of functions in the profiling run.

• Modules View

Organizes thread and resource contention data by module and lists the functions, source code lines, and instructions that were executing when blocking events occurred.

• Caller / Callee View - Contention Data

Lists thread and resource contention data for a selected function and the functions that called and were called by the selected function.

• Resource Details View

Displays a graphical timeline of the blocking events for each contended resource and lists the call stack for the blocking events.

• Thread Details View

Displays a graphical timeline of the blocking events for each thread and lists the call stack for the blocking events.

• Functions View

Lists thread and resource contention data by function.

• Resource Contentions View

Lists resource contention data by blocked resource.

• Lines View

Lists resource contention data by source code line.

• Instruction Pointers (IPs) View

Lists resource contention by instruction.

• Process View

Lists resource contention by process and thread.

Reference

• Function Details View

Displays a graphical chart of the relationship between a selected function and the functions that called and were called by the selected function.