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@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ SUBSYSTEM
'sched'::
Scheduler and IPC mechanisms.
+'syscall'::
+ System call performance (throughput).
+
'mem'::
Memory access performance.
@@ -137,6 +140,14 @@ Example of *pipe*
59004 ops/sec
---------------------
+SUITES FOR 'syscall'
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+*basic*::
+Suite for evaluating performance of core system call throughput (both usecs/op and ops/sec metrics).
+This uses a single thread simply doing getppid(2), which is a simple syscall where the result is not
+cached by glibc.
+
+
SUITES FOR 'mem'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*memcpy*::