Profiling Tools Report Column Definitions

% Application Inclusive Time

The percentage of the total time (processor cycles), or performance counter values of the specified data range that was spent in the application inclusive time of all instances of the function in this context.

% Elapsed Inclusive Time

The percentage of the total time (processor cycles), or performance counter values of the specified data segment that was spent in the elapsed inclusive time of all instances of the function in this context.

Application Etl File

Location of the file that contains ETW data.

Application Inclusive Time

Calculated time for a function or summary item that excludes performance data that contains operating system events and time from collection probes, but includes the application time of subroutines called by the function.

AVG Application Inclusive Time

The average application inclusive clock time (processor cycles), P6 performance, or user-defined counter value for all instances of the function in the specified data range.

AVG Elapsed Inclusive Time

The average elapsed inclusive clock time (processor cycles), P6 performance or user-defined counter value for all instances of the function in the specified data range.

Call Depth

The depth of the call tree.

Command Line

Command that is used to create the performance report.

CPU ID

CPU manufacturer and type information.

Dirty Shutdown

Indicates that the profiler was abruptly exited.

Elapsed Inclusive Time

Calculated time for a function or summary item that includes intervals from subroutines called by the function, and excludes time from collection probes.

Event Type

Event Type, such as event action, appears only in Call Tree report. The following list explains different event types:

L - Loaded module

M - Mark

E - End

Explicit - refers to explicitly receiving an exit from a function.

Implicit - refers to inferring function exit because of an exception.

Additionally, if ETW events are enabled, event type also lists them.

Exclusive Allocations Percent

([Allocations in a function excluding all other allocations in subroutines that it called] / [Total number of exclusive allocation that occurred during profiling]) * 100

Exclusive Bytes Percent

(Bytes allocated in a function / total bytes ) * 100

Exclusive Samples

Total number of performance data samples collected for the function excluding performance data for other functions that were called by it.

Exclusive Transitions Percentage

The percentage of the total number of operating system (transition) events that occurred in the inclusive time of the instances of this function in the data range that also occurred in the exclusive time of the function.

Final Threads

Number of active profiled threads that were running when the application terminated.

Function Name

Name of the function.

ID

The system-defined numeric identifier assigned to the process or thread.

Inclusive Allocations Percent

([Allocations in a function including all allocations in subroutines that it called] / [Total number of inclusive allocation that occurred during profiling]) * 100

Inclusive Byte Percent

(Bytes allocated in a function and all other subroutines that it called / total bytes ) * 100

Inclusive Bytes Percent

(Bytes allocated in a function and all other subroutines that it called / total bytes ) * 100

Inclusive Samples

Total number of performance data collected for the function including performance data for other functions that were called by it.

Inclusive Transitions Percentage

The percentage of operating (transition) system events that occurred in the inclusive time of the instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree compared to the total number of inclusive transitions in the data range.

Kernel Etl File

If ETW data was collected, a separate file is created by using that data and this is the location of the file with kernel events.

Line Number

Location of the start of the function in the source file.

Mark

Data inserted by the user as a marker in the code to help document performance issues.

MAX Application Inclusive Time

The greatest application inclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.

Maximum Processes

Maximum number of processes that the profiler allows to be profiled at the same time, beyond which an error is reported. This can be controlled by a registry key.

MIN Application Exclusive Time

The minimum application exclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.

MIN Elapsed Exclusive Time

The least elapsed exclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.

Module Identifier

An unsigned integer used to track the modules. It is assigned to a module based on the order in which it was loaded into the process. For example, the first module is module 0 and the second is module 1, and so on.

Module Path

Directory location of the module.

Name

The string assigned to the process or thread with the NameProfile API function. If no name was assigned to the item, the type of item (Process, Thread) is pre-pended to the item ID.

Number of Calls

The number of calls made to the instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree.

Parent Function Address

Address in memory of the parent function that called another function.

Process Highwater

Maximum number of process profiled at the same time.

Process Name

Name of the process.

Root Node Recursive

Indicates if this function was directly or indirectly called recursively in this context.

Samples (Aborted)

Samples taken while the application's stack could not be walked.

Samples (Broken)

Incomplete stack because the call stack walk failed to walk up to the thread start address.

Samples (Overhead)

Samples that occurred while a call stack walk was occurring. These are thrown out.

Scenario Name

Default value is ProfileRun. Can be set in process using the NameProfile API.

Source File

The full path of the .vsp report file.

Stack Pointer

Stack pointer value for the function.

Source Character End

Column number at the end of the reported code sample.

Source Line End

Line number at the end of the reported code sample. This is the same as Source Line Begin except for samples taken on multiline statements, for example:

y = myFunction(x + 2,

y * 3,

x / y ) – x;

Thread ID

The system-defined numeric identifier assigned to the thread.

Time Delta

The difference between the timestamp at which this event occurred and the previous event's timestamp.

Time Inclusive Probe Overhead

The total time attributed to profiling probes in the inclusive time of the instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree.

Tool Name and Full Version

The name and version of VSPerfReport.

Total Threads

Total number of threads created during profiling.

Unique ID

A hexadecimal number that identifies the function.

Unique Process ID

Unsigned integer to track the process.