Re: Win95 performance counter interface?

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From: michael
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00

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In article <73ppdc$bif$1@winter.news.rcn.net>, jwes@oro.net says...
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>On 28 Nov 1998 15:49:11 GMT, LKS <lk213@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>Brandon Van Every wrote:
>>> 
>>> Does Win95 have an API interface to SET UP the Pentium II performance
>>> counters?  i.e. a built-in method to indirectly execute the Ring 0 WRMSR
>>> instruction?
>>
>>you can use the Win32 API
>>
>>  QueryPerformanceCounter
>>  QueryPerformanceFrequency
>>
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>I suspect he is looking for the other performance counters, such as
>cache misses, etc. If there is not one built-in (or documented), it
>would be a trivial VxD.

... a fairly trivial VxD....This is a fairly useless response. I guess that 
he (like I am) is asking for a piece of code that does the job.


Michael

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