SMT profiling with pmcstat and perf

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This article discusses profiling symmetric multithreading (SMT) on the POWER9 architecture. It uses both Debian with perf and Big-endian FreeBSD and pmcstat.

Symmetric multithreading (SMT)

SMT principles

SMT is not "multi-core"

Comparison to RISC-V HARTs

Benchmark code