# Get started with performance tuning and optimization
You can use the performance build to measure system performance.
Additionally, you can compile the debug tools to analyze and resolve any performance issues.
## Prerequisites
To start developing your software using Qualcomm^®^ Linux^®^, set up your
infrastructure as described in the [Qualcomm Linux Build
Guide](https://docs.qualcomm.com/bundle/publicresource/topics/80-80022-254/introduction.html).
The build guide also explains the common build workflows.
## Performance analysis and tuning process workflow
The following figure shows a workflow to achieve the expected
system performance:
**Figure : Workflow to measure the Qualcomm Linux system performance**
The workflow diagram summarizes the performance analysis and tuning process in six steps:
1. Prepare a performance build using analysis tools.
2. Measure key performance indicators (KPIs) such as system benchmarks and boot time.
3. Troubleshoot performance issues including CPU workload and memory usage.
4. Apply tuning and customizations to address identified issues.
5. Evaluate KPI targets to determine if performance goals are met. If performance goals aren't met, troubleshoot and tune according to system requirements. This forms an iterative loop for continuous performance improvement.
6. Report unresolved issues at [Qualcomm support](https://www.qualcomm.com/support/).
## Prepare performance build
It's recommended to use the performance build for performance measurement or debugging. To prepare a performance build use the following command:
kas build meta-qcom/ci/.yml:meta-qcom/ci/qcom-distro.yml:meta-qcom/ci/performance.yml
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For more information, see [Qualcomm Linux Build Guide](https://docs.qualcomm.com/bundle/publicresource/topics/80-80022-254/build_landing_page.html).
The performance build uses the following kernel configuration fragments from the source code:
`meta-qcom/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-qcom-6.18/configs/bsp-additions.cfg`
These kernel configurations are defined in the source code kernel recipe at
`meta-qcom/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-qcom_6.18.bb`
## Compile performance tools
The tools to debug performance issues include LTTng, GCC, G++, htop,
perf utility, iotop, and lmbench.
To compile the debug tools, add them to the `qcom-multimedia-image.bb`
distribution image in the source code in the following path:
`layers/meta-qcom-distro/recipes-products/images/`
diff --git a/recipes-products/images/qcom-multimedia-image.bb b/recipes-products/images/qcom-multimedia-image.bb
index 23a2f40..5295bf9 100644
--- a/recipes-products/images/qcom-multimedia-image.bb
+++ b/recipes-products/images/qcom-multimedia-image.bb
@@ -10,4 +10,20 @@ REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES += "wayland"
CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL += " \
packagegroup-qcom-multimedia \
packagegroup-qcom-iot-base-utils \
+ lttng-tools \
+ lttng-tools-dev \
+ lttng-modules \
+ lttng-modules-dev \
+ lttng-ust \
+ lttng-ust-dev \
+ liburcu-dev \
+ gcc \
+ g++ \
+ iotop \
+ htop \
+ perf \
+ lmbench \
"
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## Next steps
- [Features impacting performance](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80022-10/topic/2-performance-features.html#performancefeatures)
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